Attention High School Seniors: Get a Spy Job... Sha na na na, sha na na na na,

When the NSA’s brand-new $1.2 billion data center goes live in Bluffdale, Utah this fall, the nation’s spy agency is going to need a special kind of person to keep the lights on, the networks humming, and the servers from melting down.

So two years ago, the agency got in touch with Richard Brown, the dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Utah, and asked him to craft a special program that could teach computer science students all of the networking, electrical engineering, and server cooling skills that they’d need to run one of the world’s largest data centers...
 
His school’s Data Center Engineering program will go live this fall, with bachelors and masters-level certifications. With its cool climate and inexpensive energy, Utah is already home to data center facilities for many tech companies including Twitter, eBay, Workday and Oracle. (more) (sing-a-long)