Acurast(@Acurast):Billions of phones fall out of use every year. Most disappear in a drawer. Google Research's answer: rack them and run a cloud on them. The research: 10 used Pixel 3As vs an AWS server, same workload, 3 years: -up to 18.9x less carbon  -$1,027 vs $40,404 ~80% of a phone's lifetime CO2 is emitted before you open the box. That carbon is already spent, and the phone retires at a quarter of the life its processor can do. Reusing it doesn't just avoid a server, it displaces a new device. Acurast has run this at global scale for years: 287K onboarded phones, 175+ countries, almost 1B on-chain transactions. Full breakdown:

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Billions of phones fall out of use every year. Most disappear in a drawer. Google Research's answer: rack them and run a cloud on them. The research: 10 used Pixel 3As vs an AWS server, same workload, 3 years: -up to 18.9x less carbon  -$1,027 vs $40,404 ~80% of a phone's lifetime CO2 is emitted before you open the box. That carbon is already spent, and the phone retires at a quarter of the life its processor can do. Reusing it doesn't just avoid a server, it displaces a new device. Acurast has run this at global scale for years: 287K onboarded phones, 175+ countries, almost 1B on-chain transactions. Full breakdown: