Deep Tide TechFlow News, June 14 — Google is exploring a low-carbon cloud computing solution based on repurposing old hardware, planning to reintegrate approximately 2,000 decommissioned Pixel phones to build a distributed computing cluster equivalent to about 50 servers, for specific lightweight computing tasks.

This solution reallocates idle computing power from mobile devices to the cloud computing network, reducing reliance on high-power servers in data centers, thereby decreasing overall energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Industry experts believe that if this “edge device + distributed computing” model is scaled up, it could provide a lower-cost, low-energy supplement to cloud infrastructure, but stability, scheduling efficiency, and long-term maintenance still pose challenges.