Interesting, but this might mean just making payment(s) to use their source code and development services to save on in-house development costs. That has no direct effect on the value of their coins, though it would boost the value of their stock shares.
"Payments" would be the acquisition of coins, running a masternode, and burning Thor.
I am not sure that Vechain is willing to subvert their business model just yet. It is a "currency" in order to incentivize decentralization, if they were looking for a company to run a server farm to power the blockchain, they wouldn't have needed VEChain for that.