Over the next three years, Microsoft will donate $1 billion in cloud services to nonprofit groups and university researchers, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The company has indicated this donation will lower economic barriers to using the cloud and prevent only the wealthy from making use of the cloud's benefits, according to the report.
"The scale and computational power enabled by cloud computing will be essential to unlocking solutions to…some of the world's seemingly unsolvable problems," Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, wrote in prepared remarks.
Microsoft will donate its Azure on-demand computing solution, the Office 365 suite and other services to manage mobile devices, according to the report.
Microsoft hopes to provide services to 70,000 nonprofits, according to the report.
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