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PowerHouse Completes Structure of First Irving Data Center in Texas

US operator PowerHouse has topped out a new data center in Dallas, Texas. The company announced the topping out of the first building at its Irving campus over the weekend."Reaching this point is the result of strong coordination across teams on-site. Thank you to Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC f...

March 30, 2026

PowerHouse Data Centers

PowerHouse Data Centers leases data center to unnamed hyperscaler at Arcola campus in Virginia

PowerHouse Data Centers has signed an unnamed hyperscaler at its PowerHouse Arcola campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. The lease is described as long-term, though it has not been stated if the hyperscaler will take up all the capacity at the campus. "PowerHouse Arcola's lease execution undersc...

January 15, 2026

PowerHouse Data Centers

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

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 an...

December 11, 2025

Lumen Technologies

Flexential to Build Sixth Hillsboro Facility

US data center firm Flexential this week announced the acquisition of a land parcel in Hillsboro, Oregon, that will be home to its sixth data center in the city.Located across from Flexential's Hillsboro 1 data center at 3935 Northeast Aloclek Place, the site will host Hillsboro 6, a 350,000-...

September 06, 2025

Flexential

PowerHouse acquires land in North Carolina for new data center

PowerHouse Data Centers's alongside real estate investment management firm Town Lane this week announced the completed purchase of 122 acres in Charlotte via a joint venture partnership between both companies. The site is intended for a five-building, 2.5 million square feet (232,255 sqm) dat...

September 07, 2024

PowerHouse Data Centers

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

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...

April 15, 2024

Lumen Technologies

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

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...

November 10, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Cloudflare blames Flexential DC outage for its service disruption

Content Delivery Network (CDN), security, and Edge computing company Cloudflare has blamed its November 2 service disruption on a power failure at a Flexential data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. "On November 2 at 08:50 UTC, Portland General Electric (PGE), the utility company that services PDX-...

November 07, 2023

Flexential

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

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 ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

45 Sprint switch facilities to be converted into colo data centers by Cogent

Cogent Communications intends to transform the former Sprint switching plant real estate footprint acquired from T-Mobile into a substantial colocation data center portfolio. T-Mobile announced in September 2022 that it had agreed to sell its Wireline business to Cogent for a symbolic $1, with...

August 22, 2023

Cogent Communications

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

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 ...

August 03, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Flexential to expand Georgia and Oregon data center campuses

A second building is anticipated at its new campus in Atlanta, and a fifth building will be constructed in Hillsboro, according to Flexential's announcement of new data center developments in Georgia and Oregon. This week, the company revealed the construction of a 36MW phased development on i...

July 11, 2023

Flexential

The colocation and hosting business of Ntirety acquired by Data Canopy

The just-bought colocation company Data Canopy took over the colocation data center hosting division of IT security provider Ntirety. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Data Canopy, founded in 2007, provides colocation, connectivity, and cloud services from numerous data centers worldwide. I...

July 03, 2023

DataCanopy

Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

November 07, 2022

Lumen Technologies

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

September 26, 2022

Cogent Communications

Flexential Announces Plan To Expand Its Data Center Presence in Hillsboro, Oregon

Flexential has announced that it is developing a data center facility outside Portland, Oregon. The development will see the company erect two new buildings in conjunction with T5. According to Flexential, the facility is located adjacent to its Hillsboro 3 data center at 5419 NE Starr Blvd...

September 12, 2022

Flexential

Triple Double and Stonerock Capital Partners Acquire Two Properties in Miami Including a Cogent-occupied Facility

Stonerock Capital Partners and Triple Double have completed the acquisition of two properties in downtown Miami. The properties are located at 200 SE 1st Street and 44 W. Flagler Street. They paid $56.7 million for both properties. The 200 SE 1st property is a 12-story, 13,200 square meter ...

May 09, 2022

Cogent Communications

Flexential To Develop an 18MW Facility in Raleigh, North Carolina

Flexential has announced that it plans to develop an 18MW data center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The data center will span 11,150 square meters (120,000 square feet). The first phase is expected to deliver 4.5MW capacity, and it is scheduled to come online in Q3 2023. Flexential has also r...

April 28, 2022

Flexential

Flexential expands and announces Atlanta construction

Flexential has announced that it is planning to expand this year, and will add 22MW of new data center development projects this year, at double the growth rate of 2021.In conjunction with this, the company announced that it had completed its 36MW Hillsboro 3 data center in Portland, Oregon, ...

March 24, 2022

Flexential

USDA awards Lumen with a $1.2 billion network services contract

Lumen Technologies has won a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Agriculture. Lumen is to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service to over 9,500 US Department of Agriculture locations across the country and around the world. With this contract, Lumen will offer a...

January 21, 2022

Lumen Technologies

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