Erin Brockovich Takes on Data Centers

The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. The name Erin Brockovich has been synonymous with a fighter taking on big polluters, and of course, many of us remember her from the film. Which dramatized a landmark case against a California utility.

Pacific Gas and Electra. Which had poisoned the groundwater in a small town. Julia Roberts played Aaron Brockovich. These people don't dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of twenty. like Rosa Diaz a client of ours, or have their spine deteriorate like Stan Bloom, another client of our. So before you come back here with another lame ass offer.

I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker. Or what you might expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Miss Sanchez. Then you take out your calculator and you multiply that number by 100. Anything less than that is a waste of our time. By the way, we had that water brought in special for you folks.

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