Microsoft, ticker NasdaqGS:MSFT, is at the center of a new $9.7b, five year enterprise software consolidation contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. The company has also joined Amazon, Google, and Meta in launching the Data Center Innovation Initiative focused on clean energy and sustainable materials for data centers. These moves touch on U.S. government technology adoption, long term software standard setting, and the environmental profile of AI and cloud infrastructure. Microsoft...