Lumen: Houston 5

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Lumen: Houston 5

Year Built: 2002

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Former TW Telecom site.

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Sites within 15 miles of Lumen: Houston 5

Distance	Site	About
2.14 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
2.18 miles	DataBank Westway Park II
2.27 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.
2.30 miles	DataCanopy: Houston, TX
8.31 miles	ViVaVerse: Viva Center	Lone Star PACE and Nuveen Green Capital have secured $40 million in clean energy financing to transform the historic Compaq Computer campus in Houston into an AI data center.
8.42 miles	Serverfarm: CTX2	Serverfarm is constructing a $137 million data center expansion in Harris County, near Houston. The 438,000 sq ft (40,691 sqm) facility will be located next to the company's existing data center.
8.43 miles	Serverfarm: CTX1 DC2	This datacenter is a part of Serverfarm's CTX1 campus in Houston, Texas.
8.59 miles	Serverfarm: Houston CTX1	Known as CTX1, this campus comprises two buildings strategically located near the former Compaq/HP headquarters in the Cypress Creek area.
8.73 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.
8.76 miles	Switch: Houston 3	Switch plans to build data center, in its own style, on a 10-acre adjacent land parcel in Houston.
8.86 miles	Windstream Houston	Previously a PAETEC data center
9.01 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.
9.06 miles	Lumen Houston 1
9.08 miles	Fibertown Houston	Fibertown operates a data center in Houston built around 2011.
9.08 miles	11:11 Systems: Houston
9.11 miles	Cogent: 12061 N Freeway	Cogent's 27,000 sqft data center in Houston offers retail colocation
11.11 miles	Prescott Realty Group-5959 Corporate
11.43 miles	LOGIX 4635 Southwest Fwy	The site was previously operated by Alpheus Communications before it was acquired by Logix.
11.65 miles	Equinix Houston HO1	Equinix acquired HO1 as well as 28 other datacenters from Verizon in 2017. It was formerly named Verizon IAH1.
11.76 miles	DataBank Houston Galleria	The data center is conveniently located near three major business districts: Galleria, Greenway Plaza, and Downtown.
12.43 miles	Verizon: 2401 Portsmouth	Former XO Communications site
13.17 miles	EdgeConneX Houston	Customer work spaces are available Raised Floor: 30" EdgeConnex has rights to adjacent space to accommodate expansion.
13.17 miles	ScaleMatrix Houston	The Scalematrix site can expand by an additional 15,000 Square Feet
13.18 miles	LOGIX Primewest Pkw	The site was operated by Alpheus before Logix acquired it in January 2018.
13.35 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.
13.35 miles	Two Shell Plaza (777 Walker)
13.49 miles	Element Critical: Houston One Bldg-2	Expansion is underway at Element Critical’s Houston One campus. The provider is adding a state-of-the-art, high-density data hall spanning 20,000 sq ft to its existing footprint.
13.53 miles	Quasar Data Center Houston
13.55 miles	Element Critical Houston One	Element Critical acquired the facility from Skybox Datacenters in March 2022 for an undisclosed amount. The site was expanded with new halls in September 2022.
13.62 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
13.62 miles	Verizon: 1301 Fannin
13.66 miles	Lumen Houston 4
13.91 miles	Lumen Houston 3
14.22 miles	TRG Datacenters: Houston HOU1
14.30 miles	TRG Datacenters: HOU2	This facility is part of TRG Datacenters' Houston campus in Houston.
15.58 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.
18.29 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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US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

November 10, 2023 Lumen Technologies

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