American Express Information Processing Center

American Express's long-time Phoenix data center is the Information Processing Center at 3151 W. Behrend Drive in Deer Valley, a three-story building of about 300,000 square feet. American Express sold the building and leased it back in 2005, and Aligned Data Centers has owned it since September 2022.

Operating data center in 3151 W Behrend Dr, Phoenix. Operated by American Express.

The short version

City permits show American Express still running the building in 2024 and 2025, and the company's annual report filed in February 2026 lists data centers in Phoenix. We found no public record from 2026 that names this building, so its status today is not confirmed. American Express is building a new data center at Desert Ridge, and Aligned plans a data center campus of its own on the Behrend Drive property.

Timeline

• 1980s: the Beardsley Campus is built for American Express.
• 2005: American Express sells the building and leases it back under a lease dated August 23, 2005.
• May 2015: Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II buys the data center and the office building next to it for $91.5 million. Its filing says the data center processes 100% of American Express's global card authorizations, on a lease running to July 2023 with four five-year renewal options.
• September 2022: the owner sells the property for $93 million. The buyer is Aligned Data Centers.
• December 2022: the city issues a facilities permit titled American Express IPC, with Aligned as the owner.
• April 2023: the city issues a permit for a $500,000 update of the building's lobby, titled AMEX IPC Lobby Update.
• 2024: the city issues demolition permits for the office buildings next door, one of them titled Aligned PHX08.
• November 2024 to April 2025: city permits for electrical work and a new fire pump at the data center name American Express.
• July 2025 to March 2026: Phoenix adopts new data center rules, Aligned demands $75,435,397 in compensation, and the City Council grants a waiver for the site.
• November 30, 2025: the facilities permit titled American Express IPC expires. We found no renewal.

What is not known

• Whether American Express is in the building today. No public record from 2026 that we found names it.
• Whether American Express renewed its lease after July 2023. Its later permits suggest it stayed, but no filing we found says so.
• The building's power capacity.
• When, or whether, its work will move to the new data center at Desert Ridge.

Related pages

American Express's new data center has its own page, American Express Phoenix Data Center Expansion. Aligned's plans for the property are on the page Aligned Phoenix - Behrend Drive (PHX-08).

Every statement above is listed with its source and the exact words under How we know this, further down this page.

• Floor area: 300,000 sq ft
• Land: 28 acres

Working here

Per-facility headcount is not published here: no reliable public figures exist for these sites, and construction announcements are not permanent employment. Open Arizona roles at this operator, where there are any, are listed on the operator's company page.

Other American Express facilities in Arizona

• American Express Phoenix Data Center Expansion
  American Express · 19400 N 56th St, Phoenix · Proposed · 240,000 sq ft

How we know this

Compiled from public records and checked on 2026-10-10. Confidence in this record: medium. Blank figures mean the number is not publicly established, not that it is zero.

Each statement on this page is listed with the page it came from and the words that say it. Sources open in a new tab.

• Status: Operating

  • [1] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Permit OE 24019042, American Express IPC (November 12, 2024): TYPE OF BUSINESS: AMERICAN EXPRESS
  • [2] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Permit record F117 24020664, American Express Fire Pump Replacement (read October 10, 2026): PERMIT_NAME: AMERICAN EXPRESS FIRE PUMP REPLACEMENT PERMIT_STAT: DONE
  • [3] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, American Express Company 2025 Form 10-K (February 6, 2026): the American Express data centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Greensboro, North Carolina

• Floor area: 300,000 sq ft

  Note: A 2015 press report gives this size.

  • [4] Data Center Knowledge, REIT Buys Phoenix Data Center Leased to American Express (June 4, 2015): The Phoenix data center is 300,000 square feet across three stories and the office building is over 200,000 square feet.

• Land: 28 acres

  Note: This is the whole site, which holds the data center and an office building.

  • [4] Data Center Knowledge, REIT Buys Phoenix Data Center Leased to American Express (June 4, 2015): The property sits on a 28-acre site has acquired a Phoenix data center and office building for $91.5 million.

• Location: 3151 W Behrend Dr, Phoenix

  • [5] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, Form 8-K Exhibit 10.2, Data Center Lease (May 15, 2015): certain premises in the building (the "Building") located at 3151 W. Behrend Drive, Phoenix, Arizona

• The data center at 3151 W. Behrend Drive is a three-story building of about 300,000 square feet, on a campus built for American Express in the 1980s and known as the American Express Beardsley Campus.

  • [6] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, prospectus supplement no. 6 (May 19, 2015): The American Express Center property consists of two buildings: a three-story approximately 300,000 square foot Class "A" data center ("Data Center") and a four-story approximately 213,400 square foot Class "B" office building ("Technical Resource Center").
  • [5] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, Form 8-K Exhibit 10.2, Data Center Lease (May 15, 2015): certain premises in the building (the "Building") located at 3151 W. Behrend Drive, Phoenix, Arizona
  • [7] Griffin Capital, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II Acquires Two Properties in the American Express Beardsley Campus in Phoenix, Arizona (May 26, 2015): The Property is part of the American Express Beardsley Campus which was developed as a build-to-suit for the Tenant in the 1980s.

• American Express sold the building in 2005 and leased it back under a lease dated August 23, 2005.

  • [5] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, Form 8-K Exhibit 10.2, Data Center Lease (May 15, 2015): THIS LEASE AGREEMENT (this "Lease" or this "Agreement") is made and entered into as of August 23, 2005 by and between IPC PHOENIX TITLE, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, as lessor Lessor has acquired the Building and the Land, and all Improvements located thereon from Lessee.

• Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II bought the data center and the office building next to it on May 11, 2015 for $91.5 million.

  • [6] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, prospectus supplement no. 6 (May 19, 2015): On May 11, 2015, we acquired a data center and office property consisting of approximately 513,400 net rentable square feet located in Phoenix, Arizona (the "American Express Center property"). The purchase price for the American Express Center property was $91.5 million, plus closing costs.

• The buyer's filing says the data center is used to process 100% of American Express's global credit card authorizations.

  • [6] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, prospectus supplement no. 6 (May 19, 2015): The Data Center is utilized to process 100% of AMEX's global credit card authorizations and the Technical Resource Center houses AMEX employees who maintain AMEX's technology infrastructure and perform testing and research and development functions.

• At that sale the leases ran to July 2023, and American Express held four five-year renewal options and no option to end the leases early.

  • [6] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, prospectus supplement no. 6 (May 19, 2015): The American Express Center leases, as amended, are absolute triple-net leases, each with a remaining term of approximately 8.2 years upon the our acquisition, expiring in July 2023.
  • [8] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II, Form 8-K (May 15, 2015): The Tenant has four five-year renewal options, no termination option, and a right of first refusal under each lease, subject to certain conditions.

• The owner sold the property on September 23, 2022 for $93.0 million, which is $93 million, and a listing site names the buyer as Aligned Data Centers.

  • [9] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Griffin Realty Trust, Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 (November 14, 2022): On September 23, 2022, the Company sold one property located in Phoenix, Arizona. The sale price for the property was $93.0 million, less closing costs and other closing credits.
  • [10] Baxtel, Aligned: PHX-08 Data Center (read October 10, 2026): In September 2022, Aligned acquired a pair of adjacent Deer Valley office buildings at 3151 and 3202 W. Behrend Drive from Griffin Realty Trust. The two acquisitions totaled $93 million in an all-cash deal, according to an affidavit of property value recorded in Maricopa County.

• A City of Phoenix facilities permit for the building, issued on December 7, 2022, is titled American Express IPC and names Aligned Data Centers Propco, LLC as the owner.

  • [11] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Annual facilities permit AFP I-0888, American Express IPC (December 7, 2022): Project AFP I-0888 AMERICAN EXPRESS IPC-AFP Permit # AFP I-0888 Issued 07-DEC-2022 Expires 30-NOV-2025 Name ALIGNED DATA CENTERS PROPCO, LLC

• On April 11, 2023 the city issued a permit titled AMEX IPC Lobby Update, with a valuation of $500,000, for an update of the building's lobby.

  • [12] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Permit SME 23007469, AMEX IPC Lobby Update (April 11, 2023): Permit Description AMEX IPC LOBBY UPDATE Permit # SME 23007469 Issued 11-APR-2023 Valuation: $500,000

• In 2024 the city issued demolition permits for the neighboring buildings at 3202 W. Behrend Drive and 19640 N. 31st Avenue, the second titled Aligned PHX08.

  • [13] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Demolition permit DEM 24008702, 3202 W. Behrend Drive (May 16, 2024): Permit Description TOTAL DEMO Address 3202 W BEHREND DR PHOENIX AZ 85027-3820
  • [14] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Demolition permit DEM 24013645, Aligned PHX08 (August 8, 2024): Permit Description ALIGNED PHX08-TRCN BLD DEMO Address 19640 N 31ST AVE PHOENIX AZ 85027-3903

• A permit issued on November 12, 2024 for electrical inspection work at the data center gives the type of business as American Express.

  • [1] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Permit OE 24019042, American Express IPC (November 12, 2024): TYPE OF BUSINESS: AMERICAN EXPRESS Permit # OE 24019042 Issued 12-NOV-2024

• A permit titled American Express Fire Pump Replacement was issued on December 13, 2024, and the city's permit map marks the work done.

  • [15] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Fire permit F117 24020664, American Express Fire Pump Replacement (December 13, 2024): Permit Description AMERICAN EXPRESS FIRE PUMP REPLACEMENT Permit # F117 24020664 Issued 13-DEC-2024
  • [2] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Permit record F117 24020664, American Express Fire Pump Replacement (read October 10, 2026): PERMIT_NAME: AMERICAN EXPRESS FIRE PUMP REPLACEMENT PERMIT_STAT: DONE

• A permit for the fire pump's wiring was issued on April 1, 2025 under the city project named American Express IPC.

  • [16] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Permit ELEC 25005059, electrical work for fire pump replacement (April 1, 2025): Permit # ELEC 25005059 Issued 01-APR-2025 Project AFP I-0888 AMERICAN EXPRESS IPC-AFP

• The facilities permit titled American Express IPC expired on November 30, 2025.

  • [11] City of Phoenix Planning and Development Department, Annual facilities permit AFP I-0888, American Express IPC (December 7, 2022): Permit # AFP I-0888 Issued 07-DEC-2022 Expires 30-NOV-2025 STATUS: EXPR

• American Express's annual report for 2025, filed in February 2026, lists American Express data centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Greensboro, North Carolina among its owned or leased locations.

  • [3] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, American Express Company 2025 Form 10-K (February 6, 2026): the American Express data centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Greensboro, North Carolina

• After Phoenix adopted new data center rules on July 2, 2025, the owner submitted a demand for $75,435,397 in compensation on October 13, 2025.

  • [17] City of Phoenix, Law Department memo on item 80 of the March 25, 2026 formal agenda, binding waiver for Aligned (March 25, 2026): On October 13, 2025, Owner submitted a demand for $75,435,397 of compensation under Proposition 207, for alleged impacts relating to the Data Center Regulations as owner of the real property located at 3151 W. Behrend Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85027 (APN 206-12-206)

• The Phoenix City Council approved a waiver of those rules for the site on March 25, 2026.

  • [18] City of Phoenix, Phoenix City Council matter 34523 history (read October 10, 2026): A motion was made by Councilwoman O'Brien, seconded by Vice Mayor Hodge Washington, that this item be approved as revised per the memo from the Law Department dated March 25, 2026. The motion carried by the following vote:

• A listing site shows an Aligned data center, PHX-09, planned at 3151 W. Behrend Drive for 2027.

  • [19] Baxtel, Aligned: PHX-09 Data Center (read October 10, 2026): Aligned: PHX-09 Year Planned: 2027 Aligned is planning to build a two building complex with data center and office spanning 513,361 sq ft.

• Press reports in 2026 describe the Behrend Drive property as a vacant office park.

  • [20] ABC15 Arizona, Phoenix negotiates with developers after data center zoning rules trigger claims (March 27, 2026): One such project is from Aligned Data Centers, which was planning to convert a vacant Deer Valley office park off Interstate 17 and Loop 101 into a data center campus.

Our own notes

These remarks are Arizona AI's own. They say how this record is counted or what we could not find, so there is no outside page to link.

The permit map records the fire pump work as complete on September 5, 2025, the latest city record for the building that Arizona AI found. Arizona AI found no renewal of that permit in the city's records, and no city permit for the building dated 2026. Arizona AI lists this data center as operating because city permits show American Express running it through 2025, the company's latest annual report lists data centers in Phoenix, and its new Phoenix data center was still under construction when we checked. Arizona AI found no public record from 2026 that names this building and no statement from American Express about it, so its status today is not confirmed. The city permits listed here show American Express using the data center building through 2025. The demolition permits are for the office buildings next to it. Arizona AI found no public source for the data center's power capacity. Arizona AI lists American Express's new data center on the page American Express Phoenix Data Center Expansion, and Aligned's plans for the property on the page Aligned Phoenix - Behrend Drive (PHX-08).