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Databricks Opens New San Francisco Headquarters to Scale AI

The office anchors a $1 billion-plus commitment to San Francisco, expanding staff, product teams, customer space and partner facilities.

A variety of seating and table arrangements are seen in a dining area at the new Databricks office.
Shelves with boxes with numbers and letters are part of a system to deliver lunch orders to people in a dining area at the new Databricks office.
Databricks opened its new office in downtown San Francisco. The tech company plans to expand even more in the coming years.
Databricks said the move into its new downtown San Francisco office deepens the company’s commitment to the city as it grows its AI business.

Overview

  • Databricks has begun using roughly 201,000 square feet across 10 floors at One Sansome and says it will grow the space to about 235,000 square feet by next fall.
  • The company says it will invest more than $1 billion in its San Francisco operations through early 2028 and has committed to host its Data + AI Summit in the city through 2030.
  • Teams at the new headquarters will work on core products and systems for production AI, including the Genie autonomous enterprise agent, Lakebase (a serverless Postgres built for AI agents) and Unity Gateway for multi-AI governance and cost controls.
  • The office includes customer-facing briefing space, studios and partner meeting rooms and explicitly names partners such as Anthropic and OpenAI as users of the facility.
  • Databricks frames the move as part of faster hiring and growth plans for its roughly 12,000-person company, and city brokerage data show leasing activity tied to AI firms has helped lower San Francisco vacancy this year and boost downtown leasing.