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Peter Tsai

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Head of Technology Insights @Spiceworks, published Austin photographer and writer, food blogger, & globetrotter. Former SysAdmin & Engineer
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Who counts as a sysadmin?

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By Peter Tsai
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(Credits: Hinterhaus Productions/Getty Images) You may have heard of Systems Administrator Appreciation Day (A.K.A. SysAdmin Day), an annual observance that takes place on the last Friday in July. The day was created to raise awareness of the hard work of IT professionals do to get them the recognition they deserve. Who is a sysadmin, exactly? In the context of the holiday, the term has been used interchangeably to mean almost any IT support professional. Is that accurate though?
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Why data centers are getting bigger: The rise of the multi-gigawatt mega campus

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By Peter Tsai
| Spiceworks Verified
(Credits: Richard Newstead/Getty) A data center used to be considered large if it had an electrical capacity of hundreds of megawatts. With the AI data center boom, hyperscalers are no longer only building single warehouse-sized facilities to house server infrastructure. There are certainly facilities of all sizes among the thousands of data centers currently under development.
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Deep dive: Do underwater data centers make sense?

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By Peter Tsai
| Spiceworks Verified
(Credits: Serg Myshkovsky/Getty) The AI data center boom has placed a premium on computing infrastructure and the resources needed to build and operate them, such as land, electricity, and water. While some tech giants like Google and SpaceX are ambitiously working on moonshot projects that would address power and cooling challenges by blasting data center infrastructure into the frigid void of outer space, other tech firms have already sent servers down into the cool depths of the sea.
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