Lumen Cambridge 1 (300 Bent)

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Fully operational facility

Boston

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Massachusetts

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Northeast US

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United States

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North America

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Americas

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Lumen Cambridge 1 (300 Bent)

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SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

AC and DC power distribution
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Map and Nearby Locations

300 Bent Street

Lumen Technologies Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Cambridge 1 (300 Bent)

Distance	Site	About
0.14 miles	Verizon: Cambridge 89 Fulkerson	Former XO Communications site
0.40 miles	Lumen Boston (1 Main)
0.42 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	MicroLink is planning to build a data center in Boston, Massachusetts.
0.70 miles	AXCELX Somerville
0.72 miles	CoreSite Somerville BO1
0.72 miles	FirstLight Somerville	Located less than one mile from I-93 on the Boston/Somerville line and at the intersection of multiple redundant fiber networks, ColoSpace Somerville offers a combination of convenience to downtown Boston and Cambridge
0.72 miles	Internap Boston	Although Internap is a carrier, the company operates a "carrier neutral" data center. There are a half dozen networks in the site, plus more via the CoreSite Meet-Me-Room
0.77 miles	Cogent: Somerville
0.79 miles	Evocative Somerville BOS1	Datacenter built in 2009 and expanded in 2013 Two (2) Story structure
1.17 miles	Tierpoint Charleston	Located on the Hood Park campus, TierPoint’s Charlestown data center is a short walk from the Sullivan Square MBTA station located near I-93.
1.62 miles	DataBank BOS1
1.62 miles	Crown Castle One Summer	Markley One Sumer is the landlord for Lightower at this site.
1.62 miles	Verizon: One Summer	Markley One Sumer is the landlord for Verizon at this site.
1.66 miles	Markley: One Summer Street	Markley's One Summer Street is Boston's carrier hotel. The building is the largest multi-tenant telecommunications facility in New England. Home to over 90 different carriers and network providers, One Summer offers clients unlimited bandwidth, high-density connectivity, unsurpassed infrastructure, abundant and reliable power, and true network diversity
1.66 miles	Lumen Boston 1
2.67 miles	Expedient Boston
3.73 miles	Centersquare: Watertown BOS4	Centersquare's cloud-enabled Watertown data center is located close to the center of Boston, and only 10 miles from Boston Logan International Airport. The facility was originally built in 2002 and then expanded in 2008 to add space, power, and cooling capacity.
8.15 miles	105 Cabot - Digital Realty	3 Story Structure Flood Zone: Outside 100 and 500 Year Flood Plain Seismic Zone 2A
8.16 miles	128 1ST - Digital Realty	Originally built by a telecom company in 2000, this facility has 13 MW of critical IT load that serves a total of 18 customers who are primarily internet based, financial services, and healthcare related companies.
9.28 miles	115 2nd - Digital Realty	Digital Realty full leased the building to a Triple Net tenant, Cyxtera BO3
9.28 miles	Centersquare: Waltham BO3	1 Story Structure Raised Floor: 24"
9.44 miles	Centersquare Waltham BOS1	Datacenter operational since in 1998. 2 story building Raised Floor: 12" Utility: NSTAR
9.46 miles	600 Winter - Digital Realty	Digital Realty full leased the building to a Triple Net tenant, Cyxtera BO1.
9.50 miles	Equinix Boston BO1
10.56 miles	200 Quannapowitt	The former facility was torn down in 2023.
12.31 miles	Camber: Bedford, MA	1 Story structure Flood Zone: Outside 100 and 500 Year Flood Plain Seismic Zone 2A N+2 Cooling Plant Redundancy
13.85 miles	EdgeConneX Boston	Customer work spaces are available Raised Floor: 30" EdgeConnex has rights to adjacent space to accommodate expansion.
14.31 miles	Equinix Boston BO2	Equinix acquired BO2 as well as 28 other datacenters from Verizon in 2017. It was formerly named Verizon BOS1 Billerica. Constructed in 2001 Construction Type: Slab on grade, concrete
17.13 miles	FirstLight Rockland	The site was acquired from ColoSpace in 2019.

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Boston Metro: Average Power Rates

Source: JLL

Operating Company

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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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,...

Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn

December 19, 2023 Boston

Photonic computing company Lightmatter has now been crowned a Unicorn, raising $155 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This funding is part of the series C investment round, which helped the company raise $154 million in May, successfully tripling the company’s value at the time. Overall,...

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is an...

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

October 16, 2023 Lumen Technologies

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and...