Lumen Seattle 3

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Lumen Seattle 3

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1505 5th Avenue

Lumen Technologies Sites

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Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Seattle 3

Distance	Site	About
0.20 miles	365 Seattle
0.23 miles	Digital Realty: 301 Virginia St.	Digital Realty is planning to build a six-story, 58,000-square-foot data center in downtown Seattle, Washington, targeting a site currently occupied by an arts venue and former Bed Bath & Beyond store.
0.27 miles	Equinix Seattle SE2	Equinix SE2 occupies 4 different floors with in the Westin Building
0.27 miles	Westin Building Seattle	The Westin Building is a Carrier Hotel and the communications hub of the Pacific Northwest. The 34 story building has a conglomeration of colocation providers, carriers, and peering exchanges.
0.27 miles	Optic Fusion Westin
0.27 miles	Lunavi Seattle
0.27 miles	Semaphore Seattle	Semaphore is a local provider in Seattle. It was one of the first to provide colocation in the Westin Building.
0.27 miles	Colocation Northwest Westin Downtown
0.27 miles	Fiberhub SEA1
0.27 miles	Astute Hosting Seattle	Astute Hosting's site is in the Westin Building
0.27 miles	DataBank Westin SEA1	The site was a former zColo (Zayo) facility before being acquired in 2020.
0.30 miles	Equinix Seattle SE3	Equinix SE3 is an 8-story steel and concrete structure designed to meet Zone 3 seismic specifications
0.30 miles	Clise: 2020 Fifth	Completed in 2013, the facility repurposed a 1975 seven story parking garage, and was honored as NAIOP’s Redevelopment of the Year in 2013 and received the AGC Grand Award for Construction in 2014.
0.31 miles	Verizon: Seattle 1100 2nd	Former XO Communications site
0.56 miles	H5 Seattle	H5 owns the building and is landlord to the Seattle Level(3) Gateway and a XO data center.
0.57 miles	Lumen Seattle 1 (1000 Denny Way)	The site is a Level3 Gateway for Seattle.
0.57 miles	Verizon: 1000 Denny Way
0.80 miles	TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2	TierPoint's marketing describes two data centers in Seattle, but in reality, they are in the same building. The site was formerly operated by Adhost before being acquired by TierPoint in 2012.
0.80 miles	KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza)	The buildings have been used as the exterior for the fictional hospital in the “Grey’s Anatomy” TV show set in Seattle. In real life, it also houses Univision Seattle, KVI Radio, Star 101.5 radio and a data center.
0.80 miles	Evocative Seattle SEA1
0.83 miles	Lumen Seattle 4
1.07 miles	Digital Fortress Downtown	Purpose-built, high-density datacenter with Seismic Zone 4 construction.
1.08 miles	NYI Seattle SEA1
8.08 miles	EdgeConneX Seattle
8.30 miles	Sabey Intergate.East	Sabey's Integrate East campus has 3 buildings. Its location is close to both Boeing and SeaTac airfields
8.30 miles	Digital Fortress South Seattle	Digital Fotress's NOC and data center are located on Sabey's Intergate West Campus
8.30 miles	COLOinSeattle Tukwila
8.31 miles	DataBank SeaTAC SEA2	UPS/DC power with battery back-up with 2N configuration
8.45 miles	Sabey Intergate.West	Intergate.West is part of Intergate.Seattle, one of the largest privately owned multi-tenant data center campus on the West coast. Intergate.West provides excellent access to I-5, I-405, Hwy 99, SR-599 and East Marginal Way. Sea-Tac International Airport is only 3 miles away;
8.45 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1-A
8.47 miles	Internap Seattle 3355 120th
8.47 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1B
9.33 miles	Colocation Northwest Redmond
9.58 miles	Colocation Northwest Belleview
10.55 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle South
12.31 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA2	Formerly known as SE4. Cyxtera's SEA2 site in Tukwila Washington was acquired from CenturyLink.
13.71 miles	Equinix Seattle SE4	Equinix SE4 is located 16 miles from SE2 and SE3, which are both located in Downtown Seattle. It is a 1-story building located 8 miles away from the Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SEA).
13.78 miles	QuadraNet Seattle
14.11 miles	Lumen Seattle 5 (Bothell)	The site was a former tw telecom facility.
14.20 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle North
14.20 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
14.78 miles	Digital Fortress Lynnwood	In 2021, Landmark Infrastructure acquired the facility, but Digital Fortress operates it.
14.78 miles	Chirisa: Lynnwood, WA	Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP) acquired this standalone facility in Lynnwood, Washington.
14.78 miles	HostPapa SEA1	The ColoCrossing site is located within Bytegrid's datacenter(former NetRiver)
15.20 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Built in July 2009, The 57,000 square foot Redmond Ridge 1 data center is about eight miles from Microsoft's headquarters campus in Redmond. The site was a cultural shift for Microsoft employees at the time. At the time each development team had their own server labs on the Redmond campus. Today cloud computing is commonplace, but this data center forced the teams to think and develop software in terms of remote computing.
16.05 miles	Centersquare: Lynnwood SEA1	Centersquare's Lynnwood data center is situated 15 miles north of Seattle and 30 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, servicing the northwest of the US.

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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...

Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

May 27, 2025 Seattle

Seattle-based Sophia Space, an orbital computing venture, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Unlock Ventures with the participation of angel investors, to develop Edge compute solutions for orbit and what they call space-based data centers.“We are at the dawn of a new era where...

Phaidra raises funds for data center cooling control system

July 05, 2024 Seattle

Industrial AI company Phaidra has raised $12 million for its data center cooling control system from Index Ventures and will use the money for R&D, implementation, and go-to-market efforts.“The data center industry is in the midst of an arms race to build new capacity wherever land and power...

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...