Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it would invest $50 million in a program that provides cloud-computing services and other resources to organizations working on climate change and environmental technology.

The Redmond company’s AI for Earth program launched in July with $2 million, awarding grants to universities, companies and nongovernmental organizations that gave them free use of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology, including Azure cloud services and mapping tools.

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