Databricks Moves Into Its New San Francisco Headquarters at One Sansome
The data and AI company officially moved Thursday into 10 floors and more than 200,000 square feet at One Sansome. It plans to double its headcount by 2027. Citywide office vacancy fell below 30% in the third quarter.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Tree-lined University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto on a sunny morning. Photo: Brian Sterling / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Databricks officially moved Thursday into its new San Francisco headquarters at One Sansome Street, taking 10 floors and more than 200,000 square feet, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The data and AI company signed the long-term lease more than a year earlier. It plans to double its headcount by 2027 and to add more space in the building by next fall. The 28th-floor "Bricksters" coffee bar will serve as a gathering place, and the offices include studios and meeting space for partners such as Anthropic and OpenAI, the Chronicle reported. The company has said it plans to invest $1 billion in its San Francisco operations by 2028, in part through its annual Data + AI Summit in the city through 2030.
The move lands as downtown leasing shows signs of a rebound. Citywide office vacancy fell below 30% in the third quarter, and new leasing topped 9 million square feet in the first nine months of the year, already exceeding all of 2025, according to Cushman & Wakefield figures cited by the Chronicle.
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