Lumen Memphis 1

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Fully operational facility

Memphis

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Tennessee

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Southeast US

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United States

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North America

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Americas

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Lumen Memphis 1

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Map and Nearby Locations

3993 Crowfarn Avenue

Lumen Technologies Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Memphis 1

Distance	Site	About
0.30 miles	5CDC: Memphis, TN	A former Fred's discount store headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, is being redeveloped into a data center by US firm 5C.
2.67 miles	EdgeConneX Memphis	Network Providers: Comcast, Level3 (tw telecom), Windstream, XO, Zayo
2.72 miles	Lumen Memphis 2
2.77 miles	Connect Data Centers: Memphis, TN	Connect Data Centers' 99,000-square-foot (9,200 sqm), single-story facility is located in Memphis, Tennessee.
5.97 miles	Verizon: 5127 Truse	Former XO Communications site
6.25 miles	xAI: MACROHARDRR	Located at in Southaven, Mississippi, the new MACROHARDRR facility serves as the third cornerstone of Elon Musk’s "Greater Memphis" AI campus.
6.25 miles	xAI: Colossus 2 Bldg1	xAI, Elon Musk's startup, has acquired a 1 million square foot (92,905 square meter) property in Memphis for a new data center to support the expansion of its Colossus supercomputer.
6.45 miles	xAI: Colossus 2 Bldg2	Elon Musk’s xAI is expanding its footprint in the Memphis area with a planned $659 million investment in a new four-story, 312,000-square-foot building on Tulane Road.
8.51 miles	Expedient Memphis	The 35,000-square-foot facility used to be a Hilton Hotels enterprise data center.
8.52 miles	Sentinel Memphis TN-1	7.4-acre site; 40,000sf existing facility fully leased to a national colocation provider
12.03 miles	Aphorio Carter: Collierville, TN	Aphorio Carter Fund Management Company, the critical infrastructure and data center arm of Carter Funds acquired a fully leased enterprise data center in Collierville for roughly $13 million.
12.95 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Anthropic has leased the entire Colossus 1 footprint from SpaceX/xAI, featuring a deployment of 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.
12.95 miles	xAI: Colossus 1
13.90 miles	DataBank Memphis-7620 Appling Center
17.07 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Groot LLC has proposed "Project Pyramid," a five-building data center campus in West Memphis, Arkansas. Local media speculates that Google may be involved.

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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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June 23, 2026 Memphis

SpaceXAI plans to resume construction of its Memphis wastewater treatment facility by Q1 2027, nearly a year after the project stalled. The company has informed local officials that the $80 million plant will support its nearby data centers. First announced in February 2025, the facility...

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...