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7060 Empire Central Drive
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Lumen: Houston 5

Year Built: 2002
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Former TW Telecom site.

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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
The proposed 438,000 sq ft (40,691 sqm) facility will be located next to the company's existing data centers.
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.
13.51 miles Skybox Houston One
Skybox is built to withstand them all with a 6″ concrete roof deck able to sustain winds up to 190+ mph. The Skybox Houston Campus is fed by a large loop-fed 300 MVA substation.
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 Verizon: 1301 Fannin
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
13.66 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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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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