Big catch on the 10-K fine print. Off-balance-sheet commitments jumping from $196B to $329B in a single quarter really shows how aggressively $Microsoft(MSFT)$ is locking in a power and compute moat. The trade-off is higher hurdle rates on Azure AI margins once those payments start kicking in.
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