Global IT giants like to come across all green and clever, with their power-efficient wotsists and their holistic thingumijigs, and their super-cooling, energy star-compliant whatchamacallits. Chip manufacturers are some of the most gung-ho when it comes to dropping enviro-speak into their product pitches, but if you ask the residents of Chandler, Arizona, they may have a slightly different opinion.

According to reports in the The Arizona Republic, a combination of high temperatures, wind and "organic materials" from birds and other wildlife have come together to create a noxious gassy stench which now permuates the homes of the hapless residents. The culprit? City-owned evaporation ponds built 14 years ago to purified wastewater pumped from Intel's reverse osmosis system nearby. Intel? Bah .... you stink!