Thoroughly bonkers upcoming ASPLOS paper from some UCSD folks: making competitive cloud servers out of old Android phones they bought on eBay.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575693.3575710
Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon | Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 2
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