The cloud: a digital expanse where data flows freely, applications flourish, and services, well, cloud your judgment, for better or worse. Microsoft, one of the heavyweights in this ethereal arena, is facing a new bottleneck—a shortage of data centers. Despite its dazzle in artificial intelligence and an aggressive push to evolve the future of cloud solutions, physical limitations have become Microsoft Azure’s invisible anchor. This, in turn, has triggered a tempered forecast for growth...