Lumen Tucson 1

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Operational

Fully operational facility

Tucson

Metro
Arizona

State
Mountain West

Region
United States

Country
North America

Region
Americas

Region

Lumen Tucson 1

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Map and Nearby Locations

135 North 6th Avenue

Lumen Technologies Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Tucson 1

Distance	Site	About
1.50 miles	Simply Bits-Tucson	Simply Bits operates Simply Bits DC1, a 10,570 sq ft data center located in Tucson.
3.42 miles	FirstTelecom: Tucson
3.68 miles	Ark: Tucson
3.72 miles	DakotaPros: Tucson	DakotaPro employs 20+ people in Southern Arizona and operates a 14,400-square foot colocation facility and data center.
4.77 miles	TECfusions: Tucson, AZ	Sat on eight acres in Pima County, the 133,450 sq ft (12,400 sqm) building offers 40,790 sq ft (3,790 sqm) of raised floor.
4.77 miles	Aphorio Carter: Tucson, AZ	Located on an eight-acre site in Pima County, Arizona, the 133,450 sq ft (12,400 sqm) facility includes 40,790 sq ft (3,790 sqm) of raised floor space and is fully leased to TECfusions.
16.00 miles	Beale: Project Blue	Project Blue, a massive 630 MW data center campus proposed by Beale Infrastructure and linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS), was withdrawn due to water constraints, despite a proposed investment of $3.6 billion.
16.06 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	AWS’s proposed 630 MW campus was withdrawn over water constraints, despite its $3.6B valuation.

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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...

Tucson Rejects Amazon's Project Blue Data Center Campus

August 08, 2025 Tucson

The Tucson city council voted unanimously to reject Amazon's planned Project Blue AI data center campus. Mayor Regina Romero said that the city would also look to place limits on future data centers "to protect Tucson from this industry that is already here in Arizona."Project Blue is a 290-acre...

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...