Continuing with its practice of expanding into new markets through partnerships, CenturyLink partnered with NextDC , one of Australia's biggest data center providers, to add presence in five major Australia data center markets. Monroe, Louisiana-based CenturyLink will be able to sell colocation services within NextDC facilities as its own, and NextDC will be able to offer its customers space in any of CenturyLink's data centers around the world, Drew Leonard, vice president of colocation at CenturyLink, said.