In December 2006 , the Hengchun earthquakes in Taiwan severed a number of critical undersea fiber optic cables in the Pacific . One Wilshire was one of the hubs able to re-route some of the internet and voice traffic from Taiwan through their facility . CRG West of the Carlyle Group managed the property as of 2007 , with 23 of the building 's floors designed to hold communications infrastructure as compared to offices . Around 300 companies had hardware in the building by that time , including Google and carriers from Asia , India , and Europe . Others included Verizon Communications , Savvis , Level 3 , Global Crossing , Qwest Communications , Pac-West Telecomm , the Carlyle Group 's CRG West subsidiary , and Sprint . Hines Real Estate Investment Trust in Houston , Texas paid $ 287 million for One Wilshire in 2007 . CRG West remained a tenant after the sale . In 2008 '' Wired '' claimed that One Wilshire had " the world 's most densely populated Meet-Me room , " with around 260 ISPs with interconnected networks . At that point , the building had only four of its thirty floors devoted to law offices
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