infrastructure

2026-06-14 google

Retired Phones as a Compute Platform: The Hard Part Was Never Compute

Google is backing a UC San Diego plan to build a low-carbon cluster from 2,000 retired Pixels. Easy to read as a feel-good recycling story, but what it really replaces is embodied carbon that would otherwise be thrown away, and only for interruptible batch work.

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2026-06-11 nvidia

Privacy Is Going Into the Silicon: NVIDIA Confidential Computing Enters Apple's Private Cloud Compute

Apple now runs PCC's server-side inference on NVIDIA Blackwell confidential-computing GPUs, and on Google Cloud. The step turns privacy from a policy promise into a chip state you can cryptographically verify.

confidential-computing privacy infrastructure

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