First-time data center developer Lumon Solutions is backing a project in Marshfield, Missouri.

The facility is intended to span 5 acres and will be cooled by a closed-loop system, according to information shared with the Webster County Commission and posted on its website.

It will be a “small-scale high-performance computing facility,” according to the developer, and it will be located on Rifle Range Road outside the city limits of Marshfield.

The commission added that the developer did not ask for tax abatement or economic development incentives.

In a Facebook post, Lumon said that the project would consist of eight modular units that would be ten feet wide and sixty feet long.

The project has attracted significant controversy.

The May 11 county commission meeting saw tensions run high as residents and Lumon representative Trent Overhue debated the merits of the proposed facility.

Lumon then made a Facebook post on May 13, claiming that “a significant amount of false and misleading information has been spread regarding Lumon Solutions and our proposed high-performance computing research facility in Webster County.”

“Fear is not a fact. A rumor is not a fact. A political talking point is not a fact,” the post continues.

The company has since decided to engage in verbal sparring with commenters expressing concern about Lumon’s NDA with the local utility, the data center’s environmental footprint, and more.

Little is known about Lumon Solutions, which describes itself as “developing a Tier III, AI-ready facility designed for high-density workloads and next-generation compute” on LinkedIn.

It is unclear whether the company has previously developed or managed a data center, and the company’s website is broken.

Lumon's founder, Ashton Owens, was previously a writer for Entrepreneur Media and a founder of two other companies – MetaWest Ventures, which lists between zero and one employee on LinkedIn, and Triple Threat Co., a creative agency.

Marshfield is the county seat of Webster County, located in southern Missouri. Most of the state's data centers are clustered in and around Kansas City, on the state border with Kansas.