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Native AI Infrastructure — Coal to Compute

Empati is developing the next generation of AI infrastructure, agentic-AI data centres, powered by 100 % sovereign-backed renewable energy delivered at zero marginal cost. By retiring coal and inheriting grid, land, and cooling rights, we eliminate energy OPEX, slash CAPEX by up to 65 %, and compress delivery timelines to as little as 18 months — turning today’s bottlenecks into tomorrow’s competitive advantage.

Revolutionising Data Centre Development with Native-AI.

What We Do.

Empati Fulcrum Platform: Computing From Coal

 

Fulcrum transforms coal retirement into zero-cost computation through four integrated phases that create irreversible competitive advantages whilst establishing new economic physics for the digital economy.

  • Phase One - Precision Measurement: Patent-protected sensors capture carbon displacement with military-grade precision, creating institutionally bankable Perpetual Carbon Units that exceed all regulatory requirements. Real-time electromagnetic signature detection, thermodynamic analysis, and atmospheric monitoring provide verification capabilities immune to fraud or manipulation.

  • Phase Two - LCOCA Optimisation: We systematically target the most economically efficient opportunities along the global carbon abatement curve. Early coal retirements represent the richest ore—highest carbon intensity differentials at lowest abatement costs. Later interventions require significantly higher costs for equivalent displacement. First movers capture maximum arbitrage value whilst creating artificial scarcity as easy opportunities exhaust.

  • Phase Three - Zero-Cost Power: Carbon revenue funds intentional renewable overbuild that creates permanent energy abundance. Once built, operational expenditure approaches zero—photons are free, wind is free, the sun doesn't send invoices. Excess capacity becomes available for computational workloads at zero marginal cost whilst providing grid services that generate additional revenue streams.

  • Phase Four - Zero-Cost Compute: AI infrastructure where electricity costs permanently disappear, creating structural margin superiority that conventional data centres cannot approach. Unlimited training cycles, continuous inference, experimental freedom without energy constraints. When competitors optimise for percentage improvements in efficiency, we've achieved total elimination of energy costs.

The Convergence Engine: Every coal plant becomes a compute facility where both energy and processing approach zero marginal cost. This leverages carbon markets to engineer computational abundance whilst creating compound advantages that strengthen over time. Scarcity meets abundance—finite carbon displacement opportunities fund infinite computational scaling.

Systematic Transformation: We're not building isolated facilities—we're systematically transforming global energy systems into computational substrate for artificial intelligence, getting paid by carbon markets to eliminate the primary constraint on AI development whilst achieving massive environmental benefits through market forces rather than regulatory mandate.

Why This Changes Everything

 

For AI Companies: Access compute at zero marginal cost. Scale without energy constraints. Transform development from energy-budget-limited to imagination-limited.

For Enterprises: Carbon-negative infrastructure that improves ESG metrics whilst reducing operational costs. Achieve sustainability goals through economic efficiency rather than premium pricing.

For Investors: Structural margin superiority through permanent energy cost elimination plus carbon scarcity appreciation as displacement opportunities exhaust. Exposure to both the last cheap tonnes and the first abundant energy infrastructure.

For The Planet: Market-driven coal retirement that accelerates through superior economics rather than regulatory mandate. Environmental restoration through economic abundance rather than constraint.

The Global Opportunity: Thousands of gigawatts of coal capacity requiring retirement over coming decades. Each represents massive carbon value funding zero-cost infrastructure that operates across decades whilst creating computational abundance for artificial intelligence development.

International Compliance + Grid Physics

 

Our approach operates within established taxonomies and methodologies whilst superimposing patent-protected measurement science that transforms estimated carbon accounting into institutional-grade assets.

Regulatory Foundation: Established Coal Transition Protocols provides the institutional framework investors require:

  • Additionality verification ensuring displacement wouldn't occur otherwise

  • Permanence assurance - guaranteeing emissions won't return

  • Leakage prevention ensuring displacement doesn't shift elsewhere

  • Monitoring standards that satisfy corporate procurement and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

 

Measurement Revolution: Our patent protects real-time displacement measurement at unprecedented precision and accuracy. Coal combustion creates distinctive electromagnetic signatures across multiple frequency bands which are impossible to falsify. We detect the exact moment coal stops burning and renewables commence generation with military-grade precision.

 

Physics Enhancement: Traditional methodologies rely on engineering estimates and periodic sampling. We deploy electromagnetic sensors, thermodynamic analysers, and atmospheric monitoring equipment that capture unique signatures of different generation technologies with sub-second temporal resolution and spatial accuracy measured in metres.

Institutional Quality: This creates carbon units with rigorous statistical confidence that banks can lend against, insurers can cover, regulators and corporate procurement frameworks accept. While traditional credits rely on estimates with significant uncertainty, we provide physics-grade verification with explicit confidence intervals (P90 at 99.7%).

Grid Benefits: Retiring coal whilst overbuilding renewables creates wholesale price reductions for all participants, enhanced grid stability through distributed generation and storage, reduced transmission losses, and verified carbon displacement that meets the highest institutional standards. Our interventions improve grid economics for everyone connected.

Probabilistic Superiority: Unlike deterministic carbon accounting, we provide explicit uncertainty quantification through Bayesian inference and stochastic optimisation. Every carbon unit includes probability distributions that enable sophisticated risk assessment—precisely what institutional investors require for large-scale capital deployment.

Empati: Transforming Coal Into Compute.

 

The world's first AI-native data centre developer powered by carbon displacement physics.

 

The Abundance Revolution

 

We've discovered the most profound economic arbitrage in history: carbon markets will pay us to build zero-marginal-cost energy systems that operate indefinitely. This isn't environmental virtue—it's economic physics.

 

  • The Thermodynamic Hack: Coal requires continuous fuel inputs. Solar panels, once installed, harvest infinite energy flux at zero fuel cost. Carbon markets pay premium rates per tonne to fund this transition. Large coal retirements generate millions of credits—billions in value that more than covers renewable infrastructure costs.

  • The Result: Carbon markets effectively purchase us power plants that operate at zero marginal cost. Forever

  • Creating Scarcity: Each coal plant retires only once. We systematically capture the cheapest, highest-impact opportunities first. As easy displacement exhausts, remaining tonnes become exponentially more expensive. Early participants capture both carbon appreciation and permanent zero-cost infrastructure

  • The Cascade Effect: When energy reaches zero marginal cost, everything transforms: manufacturing becomes materials-limited, computation becomes silicon-limited, AI training becomes economically unlimited. This creates compound acceleration where free energy enables unlimited computation, which enables superior optimisation, which enables more efficient infrastructure deployment

AI-Native Infrastructure

 

Empati is AI-native not because we optimise for GPU workloads, but because artificial intelligence orchestrates every aspect of our infrastructure transformation through our proprietary Fulcrum platform.

Beyond Traditional AI Infrastructure: Our AI doesn't just consume compute—it engineers the conditions for its own exponential scaling. Fulcrum LLM analyses satellite imagery to identify optimal conversion sites, orchestrates real-time carbon market trading, and manages cross-facility load balancing based on renewable energy availability.

Network Intelligence: Each facility becomes a node in an increasingly intelligent system where computational workloads follow renewable generation patterns. Training runs migrate to facilities with peak solar output. Distributed inference optimises across our global zero-cost energy network. Follow-the-sun computing becomes reality.

The Multiplier Effect: Every coal conversion trains our models on energy transition dynamics, making subsequent deployments faster and more efficient. Our AI becomes exponentially better at identifying opportunities whilst eliminating development friction. Pattern recognition improves across regulatory environments, carbon markets, and grid integration challenges.

  • Infrastructure Advantage: We inherit critical assets from coal sites—high-voltage grid connections, water rights, industrial permits—eliminating years of development whilst providing grid-scale access that greenfield sites cannot match. Coal heritage becomes computational advantage.

  • Autonomous Operations: Our facilities deliver perpetual uptime through redundant renewable generation, zero energy price volatility across decades, and carbon-negative operations that improve with scale. AI orchestrates everything from predictive maintenance to grid service provision.

Team

Empati’s leadership team brings deep expertise across finance, AI, and energy, uniquely positioned to pioneer agentic AI-native data centre development. Our team includes former senior investment bankers from tier-one institutions, globally recognised AI scientists who have shaped autonomous systems for both government and industry, and seasoned energy market operators with decades of experience in renewables and grid transformation. Together, we combine hard asset execution with cutting-edge agentic intelligence.

 

Empati delivers unmatched speed, transparency, and margin advantage to the world’s leading hyperscalers and infrastructure investors.

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Stewart Dodd

 

A proven leader with a stellar track record in investment banking, venture capital, start-ups, and renewable energy projects. Raised $5bn+ in capital, co-founded, listed, and sold 9 businesses. Formerly with Goldman Sachs, pioneered tech and health investment banking at Nomura.

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Co-Founder & Co-CEO

 

Prof. Gopal Ramchurn

 

Esteemed AI professor and visionary leading Empati's technology strategy. Director of UKRI's trustworthy autonomous hub, spearheading the £33m programme. Recently appointed CEO of AI UK, the UK's flagship AI initiative with a £50m budget.

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Co-Founder & CCO

 

Mark Eastwood

 

A seasoned professional with 18+ years in the global renewable sector, specialising in leading and expanding international project sales teams. Known for implementing innovative and robust sales strategies, Mark has successfully delivered over 6 GWs across multiple markets.

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Co-Founder & CFO

 

Darren Orbart

 

With a wealth of over 20 years' international business experience across diverse sectors and roles, Darren is a highly accomplished leader. He has held senior positions within FTSE 100 companies and served as the Chief Risk Officer for Shell's global commodity trading operations.

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Board and Advisory Board Members

  • Steve Norris (Chairman) - Former UK Govt. Transport Minister, currently Chairman of Soho Estates and EVO.PM​

  • Robert Suss (Director) - CEO of Pictet Wealth Management UK and former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs

  • Wiliam de Winton (Director) - Retired member of Lansdowne Partners and former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley

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We work with leading hyperscalers, cloud strategy teams, private equity and infrastructure investors, and sovereign stakeholders to accelerate the next generation of AI-native, zero-carbon data centre infrastructure. Whether you are seeking to secure long-term, zero-cost energy supply, fast-track data centre capacity, or invest in globally scalable energy-to-cloud transitions — we welcome your interest.

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