Empery Digital, a Bitcoin treasury company, committed $20 million to Cardinal Data Power, an AI data center developer, in its latest move away from pure crypto holdings toward physical AI infrastructure.
Pivoting from Bitcoin to AI compute
The deal signals a deliberate shift in Empery's capital allocation. Rather than sitting on BTC reserves, the firm is routing fresh money into the data center buildout that underpins large-scale AI workloads. Cardinal Data Power develops the physical facilities where that compute actually lives, making it a direct play on surging demand for AI processing capacity.
Empery joins a broader wave of crypto-adjacent firms repositioning around AI infrastructure, a trend that is reshaping how Bitcoin treasury companies justify their balance sheets to investors. With AI policy tensions running hot in Washington, the race to lock up data center capacity is only accelerating.
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