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Sites within 15 miles of Level3 Milton Keynes

Distance	Site	About
0.07 miles	Safenames: Milton Keynes
0.11 miles	Pulsant Milton Keynes
2.76 miles	nLighten: Milton Keynes	nLighten LTN1 (Milton Keynes) was integrated into the nLighten portfolio in September 2023 through the acquisition of Proximity Data Centres.
2.83 miles	Colocker: Milton Keynes
11.89 miles	Creslow Park	Creslow Park is a data center located in a rural area of Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
13.49 miles	Manton Park Data Center	Located on Manton Lane in Bedford, the Manton Park Data Center is a 27,294-square-foot facility acquired by Meadow Partners in early 2024 as a strategic "off-market" investment.
14.61 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Amazon is planning a two-building campus at Linmere Island, near Houghton Regis, northwest of Luton.
15.07 miles	Service Express: Bedford	The facility originally belonged to Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd, a UK-based specialist in IBM systems and managed services.
16.33 miles	Node4: Northampton
17.09 miles	Clearstone Energy: Junction Campus	Clearstone Data is developing the Junction DC campus, a high-capacity facility set on 37 acres adjacent to the M1 motorway near Luton.
17.72 miles	Safenames: Wellingborough	The Safenames Wellingborough Data Centre (often referred to as SNDC1) is Safenames' flagship enterprise-grade facility, located in the East Midlands (Northamptonshire).
19.40 miles	Thrive Luton	The site was formerly operated by ONI before being acquired in August 2021.

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The combined company of CenturyLink and Level(3) has one of the largest networks in the world.

The combined company of CenturyLink and Level 3 is a patchwork of data centers that span over Europe, North America, and Latin America. The data centers came through acquisitions that include Global Crossing (2011) and TW Telecom (2014).

A Timeline of Level 3 Acquisitions

2020: CenturyLink rebrands as Lumen Technologies
2017: CenturyLink acquired Level 3's data centers and network for $34 billion
2015: Black Lotus (for Level3's DDoS mitigation product)
2014 Level 3 acquired TW Telecom for $5.7 billion
2012 Level 3 acquired Voxility
2011 Level 3 acquired Global Crossing (GX) for $2.0 Billion
2007: Level(3) acquired Broadwing for $1.4 billion
2006: Level(3) acquired Progress Telecom for $137 million
2006: Level3 acquired Looking Glass Networks for $96 million
2006: Level3 acquired Telcove (Adelphia Business Solutions) for $1.2 billion
2006: Level3 acquired ICG Communications for $163 million
2005: Level 3 acquired WilTel for $680 million
2002: Level3 acquired Genuity for $242 million

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Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

June 17, 2026 London

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while...

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

December 11, 2025 Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce. Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology and...

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

April 15, 2024 Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice,...

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

April 15, 2024 London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for the...

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

March 29, 2024 London

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to...