By Jack Rogers

May 10, 2024 at 06:03

The tech giant will not renew its 300,000-square-foot lease at One Market, consolidating its office space.

Google has announced that it will not renew a lease for 27,000 square meters of office space it has occupied since 2018 at One Market Plaza on San Francisco's waterfront.

One Market Plaza is one of the largest office buildings in San Francisco. It consists of two towers and an 11-story annex known as the Landmark, totaling $1.6 million. The complex is jointly owned by Blackstone and the Paramount Group.

When its lease expires in April, Google will move out of One Market's 42-story Spear Tower but will continue to use space in the smaller Landmark building as the tech giant consolidates its office presence in the city, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

A Google spokesperson told the newspaper that the company is “focused on investing efficiently in real estate to meet the current and future needs of our hybrid workforce,” adding that Google remains “committed to its long-term presence in San Francisco.”

According to the report, Google plans to consolidate much of its operations from One Market into the nearby 345 Spear Street building, where the search engine giant has leased about 37,000 square feet. Google is expected to renew its lease on the Spear Street building next year.

In January, Paramount and Blackstone secured an extension of a $975 million loan for the One Market Complex, which was due to mature the following month.

According to the Chronicle, the partners negotiated an agreement that included a three-year extension of the loan with an option for an additional year. In return, they paid $125 million toward the debt that was due.

Although the complex at 1 Market Street on the Embarcadero was placed in the hands of a special servicer prior to the negotiated loan extension, the partners described the transfer as “purely a procedural step necessary to effect a change in the loan term, which required the approval of the special servicer.”

In a joint statement to GlobeSt.com in January, Blackstone and Paramount emphasized that the One Market complex outperformed other office properties in the San Francisco market.

“This property is approximately 96% occupied, has experienced the highest direct leasing volume of any office building in San Francisco over the past three years, and has recently signed leases at rents above pre-COVID levels,” a spokesperson for the two companies said.

“Our continued belief in the strength of this prestige asset is demonstrated by our decision to invest additional capital in it,” the spokesperson said. “Recent leasing activity has enabled One Market Plaza, which offers unobstructed views of the bay, to achieve net rent that is 20% higher than other prestige office buildings in San Francisco.”

According to data from CBRE, San Francisco's overall office vacancy rate reached 36.6% in the first quarter, with overall availability rising to 38.7%.

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Google will vacate a 28,000-square-foot waterfront office in San Francisco's financial district.

The Mountain View-based tech giant will come hot on Visa's heels and vacate the three-building One Market Plaza at 1 Market Street on the Embarcadero, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The company expects to leave the building when its lease ends in April.

The 150,000-square-foot One Market Plaza features two high-rise towers with a six-story addition and an 11-story historic building called The Landmark.

Ryan Lamont, a Google spokesman, said the company will move out of One Market's 42-story Spear Tower but will continue to use the landmark building. He declined to comment on how long Google plans to stay there. Many employees are already working from home.

“As we have said before, we are focused on investing efficiently in real estate to meet the current and future needs of our hybrid workforce,” Lamont said in an email to the Chronicle. “We remain committed to our long-term presence in San Francisco.”

Google plans to consolidate much of its operations from One Market into a nearby 37,000-square-foot office building at 345 Spear Street, unnamed sources told the newspaper. The company is expected to renew its lease on that property when it expires next year.

Lamont declined to comment on a possible lease extension for 345 Spear Street.

News of Google's impending exit from One Market Plaza comes five months after New York-based Paramount Group and Blackstone provided a $975 million loan tied to the complex that was due to mature in February.

According to the Chronicle, the partners have reached an agreement to extend the loan for three years, with an option for another year, in exchange for paying off $125 million in debt. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Working out such a deal would probably have been more difficult if Google had announced its withdrawal at the time, an unnamed “market participant” told the newspaper.

“This flagship property continues to generate record levels of rental demand,” an unnamed Paramount and Blackstone spokesperson told the Chronicle. “This space is leased through April 2025 and we are already in active discussions with potential new tenants. We recently extended the loan through 2028 on attractive terms.”

One Market Plaza, where rents are about 20 percent higher than other prime offices, is 92.5 percent occupied and rents are over $100 per square foot.

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Recent lease signings include Capital Research, which renewed 79,000 square feet, Citigroup, which leased 76,000 square feet, Thoma Bravo, which leased 43,000 square feet, and GIC, which signed a lease for 22,000 square feet.

Last year, Autodesk offered 73,000 square feet of the 284,000 square feet it occupies for sublease. Visa, whose lease expires in 2026, also offered its entire 162,000-square-foot headquarters ahead of moving to its new center in Mission Rock.

One Market Plaza was previously owned by Morgan Stanley and the Paramount Group. In 2014, Blackstone bought a 49 percent stake in the complex for $600 million.

— Dana Bartholomew

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The developer set to convert the area surrounding Google’s San Francisco headquarters into a 15,000-house residential campus complete with office space and hotels has backed out of the project, citing “current market conditions.”

Google, however, has confirmed to The Post that it will proceed with the project — which shouldn’t be delayed despite the company’s tie-up with the developer, Lendlease — and said it’s looking to broaden its relationships with other developers.

Lendlease issued a press release on Friday saying it decided won’t move forward with the tech behemoth’s so-called “San Francisco Bay Project” after “a determination by both organizations that the existing agreements are no longer mutually beneficial given current market conditions.”

“As part of the decision to end these agreements, Lendlease will receive a payment in consideration
for value created through the entitlement and master planning process,” the company added, though it didn’t disclose how much Google shelled out.

Lendlease scored the contract in 2019 though the developer wasn’t set to break ground in 2026 to execute four master-planned districts worth a combined $15 billion across Sunnyvale, San Jose and Mountain View.

Real estate developer Lendlease announced on Friday that its plans with Google to create the so-called “San Francisco Bay Project” was halted “given current market conditions.” bennymarty – stock.adobe.com

“As we’ve shared before, we’ve been optimizing our real estate investments in the Bay Area, and part of that work is looking at a variety of options to move our development projects forward and deliver on our housing commitment,” Google’s senior director of development Alexa Arena told The Post. “We appreciate Lendlease and the work the team has done to get us to this point.”

But it’s now five years since Google has announced the project, and the real estate market has changed immensely, threatening to price buyers out of the market with long-term borrowing rates hovering close to the 8% mark since September.

Last month, rates on a benchmark 30-year home loan hit 8% for the first time since 2000, according to Mortgage Daily News, though as of Friday, the figure has come own to 7.51%.

Still, a mortgage rate this high adds hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, limiting how much they can afford in a market already unaffordable to many Americans.

In a time of economic uncertainty, Google has continues to downsize, including when it laid off dozens of workers in its new Google News division just two weeks ago.

Between 40 and 45 employees at Google News were laid off, a spokesperson for the Alphabet Workers Union told CNBC at the time.

The Alphabet-owned search engine has also slashed headcount at Verily, the health care analytics subsidiary, as well as Waymo, the robotaxi unit, though it wasn’t immediately clear how many people were fired from each Google-owned brand.

Despite investing a reported $1 billion into this project, Google has been slashing its headcount, laying off 12,000 staffers earlier this year and axing as many as 45 employees in its new Google News division just last month. AP

The job cuts came after Google laid off roughly 12,000 US workers earlier this year, which CEO Sundar Pichai said in an internal memo affected employees at corporate parent “Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions.”

Alphabet’s workforce ballooned during the pandemic to nearly 187,000 people by late last year from 119,000 at the end of 2019 — when it first announced the “San Francisco Bay Project” — according to the most recent regulatory filings.

Axing the once-glittering project, which was set to break ground in 2026, strips the region of 15 million additional square feet of residential, retail and hospitality space.

Google said it committed $1 billion to the project that was intended to combat the Bay Area’s housing shortage, which has seen residents coughing up $700 per month for 4-feet high by 3.5-feet wide “pod” spaces to sleep in because they can’t afford apartments.

Google halted its real estate development at a time when sky-high mortgage rate are adding hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, limiting how much they can afford in a market already unaffordable to many Americans. nobyline@backgrid / BACKGRID

The pods are less than half the size of an RV at Candlestick Point, which the city opened in January 2022 for the homeless. The “safe parking site” called Bayview Triage Center has 30 RVs, each of which cost San Francisco $12,000 per month, though residents live there rent-free with 24/7 security.

However, it hasn’t been a smooth road for the “San Francisco Bay Project.” As of 2019 — four years after announcing the project — Google issued an update saying that 12,900 of the 15,000 planned housing units were approved for development by San Jose and Mountain View city officials.

It wasn’t immediately clear if there’s a possibility that Google and Lendlease could resume the project in the future.

Representatives for both companies did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

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Google is fighting back against fraud with an advanced verification process for plumbers and locksmiths.

An email sent out to Google’s top contributors states the company’s plan for an advanced verification process is being beta tested in San Diego. All locksmiths and plumbers currently verified will have to go through the new verification process. Failure to do so before November 1 will result in the loss of verification and the removal from Google Maps.

Of course, any new applications will have to go through the new process as well, which said to be simple. It includes a combination of questions from Google and completing an application with a third party verification company. The new application process is said to take about two weeks to complete.

The entire advanced verification process for plumbers and locksmiths in the San Diego area is explained in this Google My Business help article. The process will also be used for plumbers and locksmiths using AdWords.

Why Locksmiths? Here’s Why.

Did you know that one of the biggest online scams is perpetrated by so-called locksmiths? Google knows, and the issues are finally being taken seriously.

It only takes a few bad actors to ruin it for the rest. In this case, the bad actors are individuals or companies claiming to be locksmiths to make some quick cash. Here’s how the scam works.

Locksmith Scam:

• After being locked out of one’s home and not knowing what to do, a quick Google search brings up a list of local locksmiths.
• Google returns AdWords ads and Google My Business listings for locksmiths promising cheap or inexpensive service rates.
• Calling one of these bargain locksmiths actually routes you to an offshore call center, where they dispatch someone local to come to your door.
• The locksmith shows up and, before trying any other options, immediately drills the lock open and slaps you with a large bill for the service.
• The cheap service you thought you were getting then turns into a large expense.
• Congratulations, you can now get back into your home but you’ve become a victim of locksmith fraud.

This locksmith scam has been well documented over the past few years and even written about in the New York Times. To get an idea of how rampant it is becoming, search for “locksmith scam” in Google.

Google’s advanced verification should cut down on the amount of fraudulent locksmiths found in ads and search results. As for why plumbers have to go through an advanced verification, I’m not quite sure. I tried to research online plumbing scams but was unable to find anything.

Google is notoriously secretive about why it makes the decisions it does. Regardless, I have reached out for comment in an attempt to gain further information.

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Google Maps has added “a fresh color scheme, including a different look for parks and city blocks,” writes SFGate. “But it’s the changes to the app’s all-important road maps that are rankling online commentators…”
Previously, highways and freeways were depicted in bright yellow, which stood out against a stark white grid. Now, the app shows every road in various shades of gray, with major thoroughfares like Interstate 80 and Highway 1 showing up darker and thicker than other roadways. Raynell Cooper, an employee at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, called the new look “cartographically disappointing” in a Monday post to X, formerly known as Twitter. He added, “major local roads and limited-access highways (freeways) are basically indistinguishable.”
TechRadar has a side-by-side comparison of the old and new color schemes, quoting one Reddit who says the new one is a bit harder to read quickly. “The toned down look is cute but not practical.”
And the Evening Standard shares more negative reactions, including one user who complained the new color scheme is “shockingly bad.”
“Hate it hate it hate it hate it. Yellow roads were so good, and everything was bright and cheery,” states another person on Reddit. “Now it’s depressing and the roads are hard to see when not fairly zoomed in, they just don’t pop like the yellow did.
One Reddit user offered another complaint. “I think the water is a fairly significant change, it’s a much closer shade to the green of the land which makes it a little harder to differentiate at a quick glance.”

And another criticism came from a post on X. “15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps…” wrote designer Elizabeth Laraki. “Last week, the team dramatically changed the map’s visual design. I don’t love it.”

It feels colder, less accurate and less human. But more importantly, they missed a key opportunity to simplify and scale… Google Maps should have cleaned up the crud overlaying the map. So much stuff has accumulated on top of the map. Currently there are ~11 different elements obscuring it.
Tech blogger John Gruber writes, “This is a very long way of saying that Google Maps’s app design should be like Apple Maps.”

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By Himanshi Akhand

(Reuters) -Lendlease Group and Alphabet’s Google are mutually ending development services deals for four master-planned districts worth $15 billion in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Australian company said on Friday, as developers continue to exit California’s real estate market.

Lendlease bagged the contract from Google in 2019 to develop the residential and retail space in Sunnyvale, San Jose and Mountain View, which could ultimately bring around 15,000 new housing units to the region.

California’s commercial real estate market is one of the hardest hit globally as remote working has reduced the demand for office space amid declining property values, with companies like Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, owner of one of San Francisco’s biggest shopping centres, also walking away.

Under the project, Lendlease was to develop up to 15 million square feet of residential, retail and hospitality space and Google would develop office space.

“We’ve been optimizing our real estate investments in the Bay Area, and part of that work is looking at a variety of options to move our development projects forward and deliver on our housing commitment,” said Alexa Arena, senior director of development at Google.

As of June-end, 12,900 of the planned housing units were approved for development in San Jose and Mountain View, according to Google.

A spokesperson said the company is still looking to work with both developers and capital partners to move the Bay Area developments forward.

Earlier this year, Lendlease also paused its 47-storey Hayes Point project in central San Francisco, its largest investment in the Americas, looking to line up tenants or find a co-investor.

Lendlease said it will remove the San Francisco Bay project, which was expected to commence construction in fiscal 2026, from its development pipeline.

“While market expectations for the project had deflated over the past ~12-18 months, the change is negative for medium term (FY26-28) earnings,” analysts at UBS said.

Lendlease retained its forecast for fiscal 2024, with core operating return on equity at the lower end of its 8%-10% range.

(Reporting by Himanshi Akhand in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Ayushman Ojha; Editing by Sonia Cheema, Rashmi Aich, Varun H K and Sohini Goswami)

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Today’s Google Doodle honors the 127th birthday of German-born Jewish poet Nelly Sachs, whose life and work were profoundly altered by the cataclysmic damage inflicted by the Holocaust.

“I represent the tragedy of the Jewish people,” she said upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. Sachs, who was also a playwright, referred to the metaphors in her work as “wounds,” but she posited that human beings were capable of renewal even in the face of annihilation.

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Sachs, who was born into a wealthy family in Berlin and grew up quite sheltered, fled her native country for Sweden in 1940 with the aid of novelist Selma Lagerlof when she and her mother learned that they were being sent to a forced-labour camp.

The poet’s ability to express herself through writing carried her through bouts of mental illness and terrifying ordeals with the Nazis. Sachs and her mother’s Sweden apartment was once invaded by the Gestapo, who subjected the two women to a terrifying interrogation that frightened Sachs so much she briefly lost the ability to speak.

Her voice, then, was an inspired, reverberating rebuke to those who would silence her. Sachs dealt in subject matter that plumbed the depths of her and her community’s despair, but her language was deeply influenced by German Romanticism; her verse approached the ecstatic. Through her pain, Sachs glimpsed new worlds.

In honor of her legacy, we look back at three of Sachs’ greatest poems, all of which have stood the test of time and still resonate today.

The first, “O The Chimneys,” is her most famous work, and also the name of Sachs’s collection of poetry and prose released by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1967. It finds Sachs lamenting the genocide of her people, but also the disappearance of any form of true shelter. The Jews, ripped from their homes, were forced to reside in “planned dwellings of death” from which they could never escape.

O Die Schornsteine (O the Chimneys)

O the chimneys
On the carefully planned dwellings of death
When Israel’s body rose dissolved in smoke
Through the air –
To be welcomed by a chimney sweep star
Turned black
Or was it a ray of the sun?
O the chimneys!
Paths of freedom for the dust of Jeremiah and Job –
Who dreamed you up and built stone upon stone
The path of smoke for their flight?
O dwellings of death
Set out so enticingly
For the host of the house, who used to be the guest –
O you fingers
Laying the stone of the threshold
Like a knife between life and death –
O you chimneys
O you fingers
And Israel’s body dissolves in smoke through the air!

Sachs, who herself was spared the fate of being gassed and incinerated by Nazis, spent the rest of her life wondering what her unlucky family members and fellow countrymen had experienced. As an artist, she felt that articulating their final moments was her burden to bear. This mission forms the core of “If Only I Knew,” which also was published in the collection O the Chimneys.

Wenn ich nur wüßte (If Only I Knew) (translated by Rebekah Wilson)

If only I knew
what the last thing you saw was.
Was it a stone, that had drunk in
countless last looks, until, in blindness,
they fell on the blind?

Or was it earth,
enough to fill a shoe,
and already black
from so many partings
and causing so much death?

Or was it your final path,
bringing you farewells from all the paths
you had ever walked?

A puddle, a reflection in metal,
perhaps your enemy’s buckle,
or some other small interpreter
of heaven?

Or did this earth,
which lets no one depart from here unloved,
send you a bird omen through the air,
reminding your soul that it flinched
in its pain-scorched body?

Sachs, who died in 1970, wrote the following poem in 1968, and in the language you can discern the ways she repeated herself purposefully throughout her career. The reappearing star imagery that twinkles through her universe of smoke, brick and darkness suggests that her overarching thesis was one of hope.

Wenn der Tag leer wird (When the Day Empties Itself)

When the day empties itself
in the twilight,
when the imageless time begins,
the lonely voices join together–
the animals are nothing other than the hunting
or hunted–
the flowers no more than fragrance–
when everything becomes nameless as in the beginning–
you go under the catacombs of Time,
which open for those who are near the end–
there where the heart buds grow–
into the dark inwardliness
you sink downward–
already past death
which is only a windy passageway–
and freezing from going out
you open your eyes
where a new star
has already left its reflection–

Amidst a resurgence of emboldened neo-Nazi groups and white supremacist sentiment in America, Sachs’s writing feels especially relevant today not only because it serves as a reminder of the past, but because it proposes radical routes to freedom. The might of institutionalized, professionally executed hatred could not take from Sachs what was hers. Let her life be a lesson to all of us.

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Google Cloud Next, the company’s cloud computing conference that draws thousands of attendees to the Moscone Center annually, will be held in Las Vegas next year.

“We can confirm Google Cloud Next ’24 will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas on April 9-11. We will be sharing additional information in the coming months,” the company said in an emailed statement it attributed to a Google spokesperson.

The company did not cite a reason for the move.

It was unclear whether the event would eventually return to San Francisco as the city’s downtown struggles to rebound from a pandemic that emptied its offices and spotlighted the city’s struggles with street conditions and property crime.

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Ken Bukowski, San Francisco’s director of convention facilities, said the city is still talking to Google about the possibility of having the Cloud conference at Moscone Center again in 2025.

“The experience in Vegas is going to be very different from the gorgeous, partially outdoor city experience that we have here,” he said, speaking before reports of the conference being relocated were confirmed.

The conference, which wrapped up a three-day program Thursday, has been hosted by San Francisco for years, although 2023 was the first time since the pandemic hit that it held the full-scale, in-person event since 2019.

Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s poet laureate, shares a poem during the Google Cloud Next conference at Moscone Center as activists protest the company’s AI contracts with the Israeli government and military.

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The first day of the conference was also the site of a sizable protest against Google’s contracting with the Israeli government to build tech tools that, activists say, are used to surveil and oppress Palestinians in occupied areas.

The news comes as San Francisco is gearing up for the largest tech conference of the year, Salesforce’s Dreamforce, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of visitors to the city this month who snap up hotel rooms and fill restaurants.

The Chronicle recently quoted CEO Marc Benioff saying that this year’s Dreamforce could be the last one held in San Francisco if issues of homelessness and drug use interfere with the event.

A Salesforce spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment on the news of the Google move.

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A report from San Francisco Travel, the city’s tourism bureau, said that so far this year, its convention sales team had booked 16 upcoming events at Moscone Center, including the 2024 Visa Payments Forum and the 2026 Super Bowl LX & NFL Experience.

“In early July, Google canceled its Moscone Center booking for the Google Cloud Next ’24 summit,” SF Travel spokesperson Lori Lincoln said in an emailed statement. “San Francisco Travel notified stakeholders and the hotel community at that time. The Google Cloud NEXT ’24 had been scheduled to be held at Moscone Center in February of next year.”

Lincoln said the report, released in August, accounted for the cancellation, so the projects for 2024 remain unchanged.

Moscone Center is slated to host 21 events accounting for 426,951 hotel room nights in 2024, down 34% compared with 2023, according to the report.

“Since 2019, we’ve been reporting 2024 would be a more challenging year for conventions given some cancellations and it being an off year for rotational events,” Joe D’Alessandro, San Francisco Travel’s president and CEO, said in the report. 

“But every year after 2024 shows steady growth in conventions, with 2028 and beyond trending to be above 90% of the average,” he added.  

Reach Chase DiFeliciantonio: chase.difeliciantonio@sfchronicle.com; Twitter: @ChaseDiFelice. Reach J.D. Morris: jd.morris@sfchronicle.com

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(NewsNation) — Google has become the latest tech company to move a major conference out of San Francisco.

Google announced the Cloud Next conference will be held in Las Vegas in 2024, rather than in San Francisco as it has been for the three years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

San Francisco has served as the center of tech industry for years, with Google, Meta, Twitter and other major tech companies calling the Bay Area home. The city’s Moscone Center has served as a host for major tech conferences, including Cloud Next.

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But Google isn’t the only company making a move.

Oracle was the first to move out, announcing in 2019 that it would be moving the OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas. The company cited the high costs for attendees who would need to stay in the city as well as the homelessness crisis in the area.

Software company Red Hat canceled events set for 2024 and 2025 at the Moscone Center, instead announcing the Red Hat Summit for 2024 would be moving to Denver. In 2025, the company plans to host the conference in Orlando, Florida.

Meta also canceled an upcoming event, the Meta Business Summit. Unlike other companies, it did not relocate but simply canceled the conference entirely.

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While the loss of major events could be a hit for the city’s economy, other companies are still planning on hosting conferences in the area, including an upcoming cybersecurity conference, the Game Developer’s Conference and Salesforce Inc.’s TrailblazerDX conference.

Google did not respond to a request for comment on why Cloud Next was leaving the city, only issuing a statement confirming the move.

“We can confirm Google Cloud Next ‘24 will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Centre in Las Vegas on April 9-11. We will be sharing additional information in the coming months,” the statement read.

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Google has moved its Google Cloud Next conference from San Francisco to Las Vegas, as the city struggles with drug use and homelessness.

Several high-profile tech conferences have already pulled out of San Francisco, with others threatening to do the same. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has said this year’s Dreamforce conference may be the last one in San Francisco if homeless and drug use negatively impact it.

Google has informed SFGate that it is moving its Google Cloud Next conference to Las Vegas. The company did not provide any explanation or motive for the move, only saying more information would be available “in the coming months.”

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