Social networking site Facebook has backed a bid to design a server made completely from biodegradable materials.
The social networking firm wants students to help combat the huge deposits of discarded hardware by creating a biodegradable server that can be discarded on to the compost heap.
Facebook is ready for its Open Compute project with the objective to design affordable, eco-friendly servers, and now has appealed to the students at Purdue University in the U.S., to come up with a design for a dissolvable server chassis, the Daily Mail reports.
"We think there's enormous potential here, as servers are sometimes replaced as often as every two to three years. And even though the steel in those server chassis is usually recycled, we think it's worth exploring designs that retain the needed resiliency but push the boundaries of sustainability," Open Compute said of the ambitious project.
According to the paper, the housings are particularly made from steel that can be recycled, but the project aims to create an even more sustainable design completely from biodegradable materials, according to a report on businessinsider.com.
If the project becomes a success, it could see the creation of a computer server that will eventually break down entirely and decompose after it is discarded, the paper said.
-With inputs from ANI
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