Databricks Opens San Francisco HQ as AI Investment Tops $1 Billion
Databricks has opened its new One Sansome headquarters in San Francisco, a site that will expand to more than 235,000 square feet as the company deepens its investment in AI products and local operations. The company says its San Francisco commitment will exceed $1 billion by early 2028.
- One Sansome opened with 201,000 square feet.
- The headquarters will expand to more than 235,000 square feet by next fall.
- Databricks plans to invest more than $1 billion in San Francisco by early 2028.
- The site hosts AI research and teams working on Genie, Lakebase and Unity Gateway.
- Databricks says it has more than 12,000 employees and more than 20,000 customers.
A larger base for AI research and products
Databricks said One Sansome will serve as the central hub for its AI Research team and product groups. The company is developing technologies for enterprise AI agents and models for knowledge work, including products such as Genie, Lakebase and Unity Gateway.
The research work highlighted by Databricks includes KARL, which the company describes as a custom model approach for enterprises; MemCurrent, a persistent memory architecture for production agents; and Adaptive Instructed Retriever, which adjusts an agent’s search strategy to help it find relevant tables, notebooks, dashboards and documents.
Databricks said the San Francisco teams are building for customers including Anthropic, Cognition, Cursor, Decagon and OpenAI. Lakebase is described as a serverless Postgres database built for AI agents, while Genie is an autonomous agent for enterprise work. Unity Gateway provides multi-AI governance and cost controls.
One Sansome will expand in stages
The headquarters opened last week with 201,000 square feet. Databricks said the site will expand to 235,000 square feet by next fall. When the lease was initially announced in March 2025, the company said the space would have more than 150,000 square feet.
The new office includes collaboration spaces, conference rooms, a larger café, a coffee bar, a game room, video and podcast studios, and an Executive Briefing Center for customer and partner meetings. It also has a fitness center with locker rooms, showers and towel service.
One Sansome is near Yerba Buena, Powell Street and Chinatown, with direct MUNI and BART access from Montgomery Street station. Databricks said these facilities are intended for employees, customers and partners as well as internal teams.
Databricks links headquarters to broader growth
The headquarters is part of Databricks’ broader commitment to San Francisco. The company said it plans to invest more than $1 billion in its San Francisco operations by early 2028 and has committed to hosting its Data + AI Summit in the city through 2030. This year’s event attracted more than 30,000 attendees, according to Databricks, which said it plans to exceed that record in 2027.
Databricks said it has grown from fewer than 100 employees in 2015 to more than 12,000 employees worldwide. In August, the company announced a $7 billion revenue run-rate, more than 80% year-over-year growth and funding at a $190 billion valuation. It also said it serves more than 20,000 customers, including 70% of the Fortune 500.
The move gives Databricks more space to bring together research, product development and customer engagement as it expands its data and AI business. The company is also using One Sansome as a base for recruiting people interested in building data and AI products.
