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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

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CoreSite Tops Out Denver data center

US data center firm CoreSite has topped out its latest facility in Denver, Colorado. Ground was broken on the 180,000 sq ft (16,720 sqm) building earlier this year and it set to launch next year. The company said it was the first purpose-built data center in Denver in more than 20 years.“At Co...

October 09, 2025

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CoreSite Launches Third New York Data Center

US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of its newest facility, NY3 in Secaucus, New Jersey. The purpose-built data center, located adjacent to CoreSite’s existing NY2 facility at 2 Emerson Lane, adds more than 138,000 sq ft (12,820 sqm) to CoreSite’s greater New York f...

September 27, 2025

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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

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CoreSite plans new facilities in Secaucus and Denver

American Tower subsidiary CoreSite revealed its plans to expand its data center footprints in New Jersey and Colorado. The company revealed that it is already making plans for a data center in New Jersey which will be located adjacent to its NY2 facility at 2 Emerson Lane in Secaucus. It has a...

December 15, 2023

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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

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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

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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

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HostDime's Colombia Data Center becomes first in Latin America to obtain EDGE Green Certificate

HostDime's Columbia data center has become the first in Latin America to obtain the EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) certificate. This certificate is awarded to buildings with the resource efficiency of at least 20 percent in energy, water, and embodied energy in materials...

April 25, 2023

HostDime

GDL-IX, Latin America's Latest IXP, To Be Housed at HostDime's Mexico Data Facility

HostDime Mexico is delighted to report that GDL-IX, Guadalajara's inaugural peering exchange, will reside in its Guadalajara data center. So when HostDime's new Tier IV data center in Guadalajara is completed in the coming year, GDL-IX will be expanded to the new facility. By March 10, 2023, G...

February 24, 2023

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HostDime plans new "Andromeda" data center

HostDime has released design plans for a new facility to be built in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 3MW "Andromeda" data center is reportedly due to open in 2024, and will be certified by the International Computer Room Experts Association (ICREA) V standard, and certified with the Uptime Institute...

November 14, 2022

HostDime

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

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Stonepeak Announces $570m Investment in CoreSite

Investment company Stonepeak has increased its investment in CoreSite by $570m. The data center company was acquired in 2021 by American Tower Corporation for $10 billion. After the acquisition, Stonepeak invested $2.5 billion in the data center company in the summer. Stonepeak’s new investmen...

October 31, 2022

CoreSite

CoreSite Acquires Hurricane Resistant Data Center in Miami, Florida

CoreSite has announced the acquisition of a data center in Miami, Florida. The data center acquired is a purpose-built 9,550 square meter (103,000 square feet) facility located at 2100 NW 84th Avenue. The company didn’t reveal the terms of the transaction. CoreSite is naming the new data ce...

October 05, 2022

CoreSite

Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an annou...

July 15, 2022

CoreSite

CoreSite Absorbs Three American Tower's Data Centers

CoreSite has integrated three data centers from American Tower into its data center portfolio. The data centers are located in Florida and Georgia. The three data centers are Orlando OR1, located at 9701 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando, Atlanta AT1, located at 55 Marietta Street NW, Atlanta)...

June 09, 2022

CoreSite

Solar panels to support HostDime's Paraíba data center

HostDime has announced that to support its Paraíba data center in Brazil, it has installed a solar plant. The photovoltaic solar power plant, which has already had more than 2,000 photovoltaic modules installed, is located in a rural area of the Pilar municipality in Paraíba, and saw an inv...

April 12, 2022

HostDime

HostDime and its Eatonville data center

HostDime recently celebrated a significant milestone in the construction of its 100,000-square-foot Eatonville data center with the last structural beam placed on the facility.According to Manny Vivar, the company’s CEO, the $37 million project will be the “Penn Station of Florida.” He added:...

March 09, 2022

HostDime

CoreSite Is Developing a 34MW Facility in Silicon Valley

CoreSite has announced that it has gotten approval from Santa Clara’s Planning Commission for the development of a 200,000 square foot (18,500 square meters) 34MW data center in Silicon Valley. The facility is located at 2905 Stender Way. Coresite only got the approval after going through d...

March 04, 2022

CoreSite

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

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