<ul><li>Microsoft and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington have developed 'GreenSKUs', a sustainable approach to server design.</li><li>GreenSKUs focuses on reusing components like RAM modules and SSDs from decommissioned servers, reducing carbon emissions from manufacturing.</li><li>The GreenSKUs framework leverages backward compatibility to reuse older components without significant performance loss.</li><li>The researchers estimate an 8% reduction in embodied and operational carbon emissions for servers using this approach.</li></ul>

Microsoft joins scientists in finding a way to reuse decommissioned servers

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