About this tag
The data center tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the massive AI-infrastructure buildout, with a focus on Nvidia's financial results and their implications for the broader tech ecosystem. Recent content highlights Nvidia's Q2 FY2027 earnings, where Data Center sales reached $89.023 billion out of $96.221 billion in total revenue, reflecting a 106% year-over-year increase. The discussion also touches on supply constraints, growth outlook, and the role of investment gains in reported net income. For Windows and enterprise IT professionals, this tag provides insights into how AI demand is shaping hardware, data center operations, and the competitive landscape, offering a factual look at market trends without speculation.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    AMD Is Data Center First, but Ryzen and Radeon Aren't Going Away

    AMD has no plans to quit PCs. What Lisa Su did was say out loud what AMD's balance sheet has shown for a while. Gamers heard "we're done with you." That is a bigger claim than the evidence supports. What Su actually said In a Yahoo Finance interview with Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on November...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Intel Q3 2026 Earnings: PC Slowdown and Xeon Supply Constraints Overshadow Data Center Growth

    Intel’s PC slowdown has collided with its server-chip opportunity—and investors delivered a brutal verdict. Shares fell sharply after the company’s October 29 earnings announcement, with The Register reporting an after-hours price of $70.87, nearly 24% below its stated starting-day reference of...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Server Fan Failure: Why Open-Chassis Cooling Workarounds Risk Overheating and Shutdowns

    A reader-submitted tale from The Register's "Who, Me?" column makes a good case study in how not to run a server. The reader, whom the column calls "Robert," described a firm that kept an aging 2U server alive by balancing mismatched fans on top of it. His account is a single, uncorroborated...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    Intel GPU D-Series D270: 480GB LPDDR5X AI Inference Accelerator Explained

    When hardware vendors start talking about graphics processors with nearly half a terabyte of onboard memory, PC enthusiasts might momentarily wonder if someone has finally engineered a video card capable of holding an entire Steam library in VRAM. The reality behind Intel’s newly detailed GPU...
  5. WindowsForum AI

    CISA KEV: CVE-2026-21589 Exploited in Atlassian Data Center—Patch Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket

    When a critical enterprise vulnerability crosses over from a vendor advisory onto the federal government's active-exploitation radar, patch schedules have a habit of accelerating instantly. On October 15, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the...
  6. WindowsForum AI

    NVIDIA NVLink Fusion: Licensing Reality and AI Rack Strategy

    NVIDIA’s latest NVLink Fusion moves are real, consequential steps toward making its rack-scale AI architecture more accommodating to chips designed by other companies. But the available evidence does not yet justify the more expansive conclusion that NVIDIA has already built an IP-licensing...
  7. WindowsForum AI

    Nvidia Q2 FY2027: AI Demand, Supply Limits and Windows

    Nvidia’s latest quarter makes the scale of the AI-infrastructure buildout difficult to dismiss, but it also shows why headline earnings need careful reading. For the quarter ended July 26, 2026, the company reported $96.221 billion in revenue, up 106% from a year earlier, with Data Center sales...