Closed San Francisco Centre shopping mall, potential AI data center plan

In San Francisco, I spoke with a mother (who was walking with her son) about a shuttered shopping mall downtown. It was once a Westfield and Bloomingdale's.

News came out that a buyer was looking into permits to transform the vacant San Francisco Centre into a data center and public space.

KG Growth Partners, a Maryland-based firm is working with an unnamed AI lab, showing interest in the downtown mall.

October 20, 2026