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Sadly this is not a joke nor some doomsday thinking. Google recently repurposed thousands of phones for server needs. Why? Well guess why… to teach everyone tis

by larodi 4mo ago

Sadly this is not a joke nor some doomsday thinking. Google recently repurposed thousands of phones for server needs. Why? Well guess why… to teach everyone tis coming.

Brybry 4mo ago
To clarify: UC San Diego is planning to build a cluster of 2000 Pixel phones for computer science class use and Google, in support, helped with a test with 20 phones.
- glenstein 4mo ago
  Goodness. Thank you for the clarification as this is leagues different than what I originally thought I was reading from the other comment.
- stymaar 4mo ago
  > Google, in support, helped with a test with 20 phones. Cheapest PR stunt ever.
michaelt 4mo ago
Or they did it for positive PR. To show they’re working on reducing the impact of data centres on the environment, and that they’re taking action on e-waste, all while saying their pixel phones are so powerful they can be clustered into servers. And their announced test with 2000 phones, where one server is 25-50 phones, is only 40-80 servers. Interesting, but hardly hyper scale.