Lumen Cincinnati (1428 West 8th)

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Lumen Cincinnati (1428 West 8th)

Utility Provider: Duke Energy Ohio

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Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Cincinnati (1428 West 8th)

Distance	Site	About
0.25 miles	H5 Cincinnati II	The 107,000 SF Cincinnati data center was originally developed by PNC Bank
0.26 miles	Verizon: 1200 W 8th
0.41 miles	Cogent: 1120 W 6th
1.06 miles	H5 Cincinnati 360 Gest	The Cincinnati data center is home to several metro, long haul and telecommunications access providers such as AT&T, Inteliquent, Windstream and Zayo.
1.29 miles	DataCanopy: Cincinnati, OH	Located in downtown, the CIN2 data center facility is used for production colocation, backup and recovery, and business continuity.
1.30 miles	CyrusOne Cincinnati 7th Street	CyrusOne's CIN2 is Cincinnati's primary carrier hotel and switching facility, at 229 West 7th Street downtown. The 12-story building stands next to altafiber's (formerly Cincinnati Bell) main telephone exchange.
1.32 miles	altafiber: 209 W 7th	altafiber's (formerly Cincinnati Bell) main telephone exchange occupies the 1931 Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building at 209 West 7th Street in downtown Cincinnati. It stands next to CyrusOne's CIN2 carrier hotel.
1.37 miles	DartPoints: Cincinnati, OH	Conveniently located in the heart of Cincinnati, CVG01 provides immediate access to dense fiber routes and core network infrastructure.
2.10 miles	Lumen Cincinnati 1 (400 Pike)
3.90 miles	WiredRE: i74 Wired	i74 Wired is a 65,000 sq ft multi-tenant office campus at 2300 Montana Avenue in Cincinnati with a first-generation enterprise data center. Built in 1973 as the headquarters of Cincom Systems, it was relaunched as i74 Wired around 2016 and was put up for sale in 2026.
5.28 miles	CAI Investments: Ivorydale, St. Bernard	CAI Investments has proposed a data center of about 140,000 sq ft inside an existing building on part of the former Procter & Gamble Ivorydale complex at 5177 Spring Grove Avenue in St. Bernard, Ohio. In October 2026 the owner asked the city zoning board to table its request.
6.31 miles	Encore Technologies NOR1	Encore Technologies' NOR1 data center sits at the company's headquarters at 4620 Wesley Avenue in Norwood, Ohio. The colocation facility offers 2N power, N+1 cooling and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
9.50 miles	CyrusOne Kentucky	Although the data center is in Florence Kentucky, it is close to downtown Cincinnati.
10.27 miles	HPC Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.45 miles	altafiber: Evendale	altafiber (formerly Cincinnati Bell) central office at 10000 Reading Road in Evendale, Ohio. The 1963 building houses the switch that is becoming altafiber's single voice core as older switches retire.
12.44 miles	CyrusOne Cincinnati-Carver Road (CIN99)	Enterprise data center at 9935 Carver Road in Blue Ash, Ohio, owned by The Kroger Co. CyrusOne listed the facility as CIN99 in its 2024 Ohio portfolio.
12.80 miles	Cogent: Sharonville
13.03 miles	CyrusOne Cincinnati-Blue Ash
15.11 miles	Encore Technologies BLU1
15.19 miles	Crane: Pierce Township, OH	Crane Data Centers has proposed a three-building data center campus on about 294 acres of wooded hillside in Pierce Township, Clermont County, Ohio, across US 52 from the former Beckjord power plant. The township trustees oppose the plan, and a township moratorium on data centers runs to May 2027.
15.43 miles	Flexential Cincinnati 1 and 2	The Flexential sites are former Peak 10 facilities.
15.64 miles	CyrusOne Cincinnati-Goldcoast	Former CyrusOne colocation site (CIN98) at 11500 Goldcoast Drive in Sycamore Township, Ohio. The building sold to a new owner in 2019, and CyrusOne no longer operates the site.
16.09 miles	Lumen Cincinnati 4
17.33 miles	GE Aerospace: Cincinnati Data Center	Enterprise data center at 8700 Governors Hill Drive in Symmes Township, near Cincinnati, Ohio, leased to General Electric. The 69,826 sq ft building dates to 1985 and sold to a new owner in 2021.
18.50 miles	CyrusOne Cincinnati-Mason
19.35 miles	LightHouse: Hamilton, OH	Withdrawn hyperscale data center proposal on a 29-acre city-owned parcel at 1380 University Boulevard in Hamilton, Ohio. Logistix Property Group started the project in 2024. LightHouse Data Centers and its parent Wharton Equity Partners took it over in 2025 and ended the city development agreement in May 2026.
19.41 miles	CenterGrid: Hamilton	CenterGrid operates a colocation data center in the Vora Technology Park building at 101 Knightsbridge Drive in Hamilton, Ohio. The facility runs on City of Hamilton power with redundant feeds and two diesel generators.
19.41 miles	CyrusOne Cincinnati-Hamilton	CyrusOne's CIN4 data center occupies about 83,000 sq ft of the Vora Technology Park building at 103 Knightsbridge Drive in Hamilton, Ohio, 30 minutes north of downtown Cincinnati. Miami University bought the building in 2024.

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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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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,...

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...

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

August 03, 2023 Lumen Technologies

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization to...