Ousley added that the Qwest data centers are only running at about 80 per cent capacity and that Savvis thinks it can crank up the efficiencies there and use the centers to build out managed hosting and cloud services. CenturyLink has no intention of selling off the overseas Savvis data centers, by the way, and wants to use them to provide extra services to multinational customers that are expanding in Europe and Asia. The companies believe that there are about $70m in cost reductions they can make once the acquisition is completed, a process that will take more than three months to complete, according to Ousley.