Lumen: Leeds (Sterling House)

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Sites within 15 miles of Lumen: Leeds (Sterling House)

Distance	Site	About
0.22 miles	aql: Leeds DC3	DC2 & DC3 are the company's flagship sites, located within a historic 18th-century chapel. DC3 is famous for its "glass-floored" conference room situated directly above the server racks
0.68 miles	aql: Leeds DC2	DC2 & DC3 are the company's flagship sites, located within a historic 18th-century chapel. DC3 is famous for its "glass-floored" conference room situated directly above the server racks
0.70 miles	aql: Leeds DC5	DC5 Canon House is aql’s purpose-built High-Performance Computing (HPC) hub, situated approximately half a mile from the Salem Chapel campus.
1.46 miles	Gridjet: DC4 & DC5	Gridjet Datacentre Ltd operates a strategically located facility in Leeds, UK, providing a versatile infrastructure across two distinct data halls.
1.93 miles	AtlasEdge: Leeds, UK	AtlasEdge unveils Leeds first Tier 3 standard data center. After acquiring the largest purpose-built data centre in Leeds in 2022, AtlasEdge has since invested more than £13 million to transform the site.
2.59 miles	TowerInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft has acquired 48 acres of land at the Skelton Grange site in Leeds, UK, for £106.6 million ($134.83m) from real estate group Harworth.
2.67 miles	Central StationInterested in this information?Contact us
2.74 miles	Center OneInterested in this information?Contact us
4.03 miles	Virgin Media Leeds (Temple House)
4.26 miles	C.C.S. DC14 - Leeds
5.67 miles	Asanti: Leeds	The Asanti Leeds data centre was acquired from Daisy Group in November 2022. The facility (formerly known as Daisy Birstall) was already operational prior to the acquisition.
7.86 miles	Node4: Leeds
8.95 miles	nLighten Leeds (Wakefield)
9.03 miles	Deep Green: Bradford	Data center company Deep Green is set to build a new facility in Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
12.64 miles	Stellanor: Harrogate	Stellanor acquired the site from Redcentric plc as part of a larger deal involving eight UK data centers.
13.60 miles	Stellanor: Elland TC4	The facility located at Unit J1, Lowfields Business Park in Elland is a high-specification data center that was acquired by Stellanor Datacenters from Redcentric in late 2025.
15.10 miles	Copley Data Center	Lloyds Bank is selling its 55-acre office and data center campus in West Yorkshire.
17.99 miles	CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft is proposing to develop a new UK data center campus on the site of a decommissioned power station in Eggborough, North Yorkshire. Microsoft aims to build two two-story data centers on part of the former Eggborough power station.

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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, voice,...

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...

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...