Lumen San Francisco (200 Paul)

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Fully operational facility

Lumen San Francisco (200 Paul)

Ownership: Lumen Technologies does not own the building.

This site is leased from Digital Realty Trust in the 200 Paul (SFR1) Digital Realty building

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Infrastructure:

UPS Energy Storage: Battery DC energy storage system arranged in an N+1 battery string per UPS module.
Emergency Power: Two 2MW Diesel Generators. Units in housings for protection with physical separation between units and switchgear.
Fuel Storage: 72-plus hours of fuel in 6000 gallon main fuel tank. Onsite
refueling capable while running.
Cooling Systems: Precision cooling roof-mounted dry cooler air conditioning
units provide N+1 cooling to each suite.

Liebert Humidification System
Leak Detection: Rope-style leak detection deployment throughout

Fire Suppression: Smoke detectors with double interlocked pre-action dry pipe water suppression.

Map and Nearby Locations

200 Paul Avenue ( Suite 401 )

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Sites within 15 miles of Lumen San Francisco (200 Paul)

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	200 Paul (SFR1) Digital Realty	SFR1 (200 Paul Ave.) is the best connected building in the city of San Francisco. The 5 story building was built in 2001 and was renovated in 2014.
0.00 miles	Verizon: 200 Paul
0.00 miles	United Layer-SF8
0.00 miles	United Layer-SF9
0.00 miles	United Layer-SF7
0.01 miles	Colocation America - San Francisco
0.10 miles	Novva: San Francisco	Novva plans to invest $500 million in developing a San Francisco campus on the site at 400 Paul Avenue, with the first phase launching in the summer of 2026.
0.11 miles	400 Paul Ave (1547)	400 Paul is San Francisco's first purpose-built data center in over 10 years
2.75 miles	Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project	The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project aims to transform the inactive San Bruno Mountain quarry, located in Brisbane just south of San Francisco.
3.59 miles	Verizon: 651 Brannan	Former XO Communications site
3.69 miles	Lumen San Francisco 1
3.88 miles	DataCanopy: San Francisco	This facility has been audited under SOC 2 and SOC 3 requirements.
4.11 miles	Fortress Data Center San Francisco SF1
4.53 miles	365 Main (SFR2) Digital Realty
4.55 miles	360 Spear	360 Spear is a 155,000 square foot data center facility that benefits from being located adjacent to Digital's well-connected 365 Main Street facility.
4.55 miles	ColoServe San Francisco
8.17 miles	720 2nd - Digital Realty	Strategically located in a fiber-rich district and directly adjacent to PG&E substation, the facility is four blocks from Jack London Square and proximate to the central business district of Oakland.
8.17 miles	Internap Oakland
9.08 miles	Cogent Oakland
9.82 miles	Lumen Emeryville 1
10.28 miles	Evocative: Emeryville, Oakland OAK1	Evocative's Emeryville Data Center Facility (OAK1) is located at 1400 65th Street, Emeryville, CA 94608. Spanning an impressive 15,042 square feet, this colocation site offers ample space to accommodate various data center operations and infrastructure requirements.
15.78 miles	Lumen Hayward 1
16.94 miles	Prime Hayward	This 20MW two-story flex building comprising 145,850 square feet on 4 acres is 100% leased by a leading Fortune 50. The property was built in 2015 as a build-to-suit.
17.04 miles	AT&T Hayward

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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,...

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

November 20, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company...

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

November 19, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology...

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...