Lumen Houston 4

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Operational

Fully operational facility

Houston

Metro
Texas

State
South Central US

Region
United States

Country
North America

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Americas

Region

Lumen Houston 4

Total Power

SBC CO

Map and Nearby Locations

1124 Hardy Street

Lumen Technologies Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Houston 4

Distance	Site	About
0.30 miles	Lumen Houston 3
1.04 miles	Quasar Data Center Houston
1.25 miles	Two Shell Plaza (777 Walker)
1.25 miles	LOGIX Houston (777 Walker)	The 777 Walker data center is only one city block from the Alpheus fiber network hub at 1010 Travis, and is interconnected with it on a high capacity DWDM system.
1.52 miles	1301 Fannin - Netrality Houston	1301 Fannin Street is a 25 story 1.1 million square building which was acquired in 2015 by Netrality. 1301 Fannin is the primary telecom hotel and interconnection point in Houston. Netrality operates as a carrier-neutral facility manages the Meet Me Room
1.52 miles	Verizon: 1301 Fannin
4.76 miles	Verizon: 2401 Portsmouth	Former XO Communications site
6.38 miles	DataBank Houston Galleria	The data center is conveniently located near three major business districts: Galleria, Greenway Plaza, and Downtown.
6.81 miles	LOGIX 4635 Southwest Fwy	The site was previously operated by Alpheus Communications before it was acquired by Logix.
11.37 miles	Equinix Houston HO1	Equinix acquired HO1 as well as 28 other datacenters from Verizon in 2017. It was formerly named Verizon IAH1.
11.54 miles	Windstream Houston	Previously a PAETEC data center
12.45 miles	11:11 Systems: Houston
12.45 miles	12001-12235 North Freeway - Digital Realty	Located in Greenspoint, the Digital North Freeway campus consists of multiple buildings. SunGard, Fibertown, and Level3 are all Digital tenants on the campus.
12.50 miles	Fibertown Houston	Fibertown operates a data center in Houston built around 2011.
12.52 miles	Lumen Houston 1
12.57 miles	Cogent: 12061 N Freeway	Cogent's 27,000 sqft data center in Houston offers retail colocation
12.61 miles	Prescott Realty Group-5959 Corporate
12.80 miles	Switch: Houston 3	Switch plans to build data center, in its own style, on a 10-acre adjacent land parcel in Houston.
12.86 miles	Switch: Houston 2	Located in Greenspoint, Data Foundry's Houston 2 site is situated on 18 acres in North Houston. There is a large office area available for lease.
13.24 miles	DataBank Westway Park I	DataBank’s HOU1 data center is located on on the Westway Park Campus, 20 mins west of downtown Houston, just off Beltway 8 between I-10 and 290
13.33 miles	DataBank Westway Park II
13.53 miles	Databank Westway Park III	At full build the site will offer up to 640,000 square feet of data center shell with 450,000sqft of raised floor. The first phase is approximately 320,000 square feet of shell.
13.56 miles	DataCanopy: Houston, TX
13.66 miles	Lumen: Houston 5
15.35 miles	Iozera: Houston, TX	Iozera has acquired an operational enterprise data center in Houston, Texas, with plans to transform it into a cutting-edge, AI-ready multi-tenant hub capable of hosting Nvidia Blackwell GPUs.
19.78 miles	Windstream: Sugar Land, TX	A switch and data center facility that serves as an interconnected transmission site for routing telecommunication traffic across the network.

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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,...

Axiom Space to launch orbital data center

December 21, 2023 Houston

Space infrastructure business Axiom Space has planned to develop an 'orbital data center.' The company is currently developing the world’s first commercial space station, which will initially be a part of the International Space Station, but is planned to separate and remain in orbit, once the...

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...