“They’re each 4 feet high, 3½ feet wide, and long enough to fit a twin-size mattress.”
A one-bedroom in San Francisco averages $3,040 a month. About 20 pods sit stacked in twos on the top floor of a former credit union, curtains for doors. Residents include founders chasing AI money and a man working two jobs, one at Carl’s Jr. The self-declared AI capital of the world now rents bunks in an old bank to the people building its future.