A proposed data center campus is facing pushback outside Kansas City, Missouri.

KMBC 9 News reports that the Peculiar Board of Alderman sent a decision on rezoning more than 500 acres for a planned data center campus back to the planning committee and will be reconsidered again in August.

Peculiar is a city in Cass County, Missouri, located some 20 miles south of Kansas City. Diode Ventures is planning the Harper Road Technology Park (HRTP); a $1.5 billion project located on the west side of Harper Road between 203rd and future 211th Street, near a new Evergy substation and 345kV transmission lines.

Peculiar Mayor Doug Stark first revealed plans for a 504-acre data storage and technology park named Project Harper back in January.

Site plans in submitted documents suggest up to seven data center buildings could be built on the site, each spanning 300,000 sq ft (27,870 sqm). The site is currently zoned AG agriculture.

KMBC reports locals have voiced concerns about the visual and sound impacts the campus would have on the rural area, as well as the impact on local property values. Residents are reportedly asking for a greater buffer zone, concealed power poles, and more sound mitigation.

"You can hear the tree frogs here, the animals," said Chad Buck, a resident of the Grand Oak Farms neighborhood. "What really caused a lot of concern was the building placement that the developer had proposed to put a, you know, 350,000 square foot building matter of 50 feet or just feet from, you know, what we're calling ground zero.”

Diode is also developing several other data center campuses around Kansas City including the Hampton Meadows, Golden Plains, and Rocky Branch Creek technology parks.

According to Wikipedia, there are multiple theories about how Peculiar got its name.

One suggests the area’s first local postmaster wasn’t allowed his first choice for a town name, and when the Postmaster General suggested he didn’t care what name it was given ‘so long as it is sort of peculiar,' the name "Peculiar" was submitted and approved.

Another story suggests early settlers thought it was peculiar the area matched a vision that had recently come to one of their group, and the name stuck.