Residents of the mountain town of Lenoir had to hold their noses today when a server-waste lagoon overflowed and began contaminating the area with X-rated pictures from the internet.
Eyewitness said that they saw thousands of images floating around including the famous Spears shots. One Baptist farmer was said to have locked his whole family in the house and vowed not let them out until the mess was cleaned up.
The server farm, which belonged to Google, has a history of lagoon waste overflow and spilled over after excessive amounts of rain fell in the North Carolina mountains yesterday.
A spokesman for the farm admitted that this has been an ongoing problem at the facility that needs to be addressed.
County officials said that unless there was an immediate response to clean up the waste, the company was risking serious religious and political backlash from residents of this quiet mountain community in the southern bible belt.
"These companies have to remember that they are in God's country when they come here. They cain't just come in from California and go doin' things they own way. We got a long history that goes way, way back," said Lenoir city council member, Wilbur J. Rohr.
Google has owned the farm for 10 years since NAFTA (Now Ain'twe Fucked Toiless Americans) politicians opened the drain south of the border that began sucking thousands of American jobs down the drain including Lenoir's furniture industry.
Google chose Lenoir because of the abundance of power and water it takes to run a server farm, but did not foresee the problem of server-waste lagoon overflow.
"It seems like no matter where you go in this state the lagoons are overflowing," said one resident who preferred to remain anonymous. "You can go to the mountains and you can go to the beach and you still smell the same thing--money!"
In the east, it's the hog-waste lagoons that smell so bad.
But servers and the need to store large amounts of data are here to stay. Server farms have become the backbone of the next step in the digital revolution. As more pictures, videos and other data move from the desktop to a network, companies such as Google need huge capacity to store them.
"It's always a sensitive issue with the residents," one spokesman for Google said. "It's not like you can come right out and tell residents here that their pornographic pictures will download faster living closer to a server farm as a selling point."
Residents of Lenoir had to hold their noses 10 years ago after agreeing to let the company develop their farm. They knew full well what digital pictures and videos meant. But they had no other choice. What industry was there to replace the southbound furniture market, but porn?
In other news today, more college graduates are needed to work long shifts on server farms laboring in the field.
