Transforming office towers into AI hubs and urban data centers

HOK shares a look at how empty and underutilized office towers in cities like San Francisco, Calif., could find new life as advanced tech hubs with on-site servers, energy harvesting, and innovative work and creative spaces.

Cities around the world continue to struggle with downtown office vacancies brought on by the pandemic and the shift to hybrid and remote work. This has been especially pronounced in San Francisco where the city’s tech-based economy made it easy for workers to shift from the corporate office to home office.

To date, the most common solution for empty or half-filled office towers is to convert them to residential use. Yet not all office buildings make for ideal residential conversion. What might be done with those buildings? Could they be adapted for novel and new uses?,,,