Key points
- Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for US$10 million ($14 million) to use for product development and AI training.
- The data covers employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, spreadsheets, calendars, and marketing, productivity, and operations data, and will be de-identified before sale.
- A US bankruptcy judge will consider approving the sale at a court hearing, with Mercor having also bid US$7.5 million for the data.
Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for US$10 million ($14 million), saying it plans to use the data for product development and training its AI models.
The acquired data includes Spirit Airlines' employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, spreadsheets, and calendars, as well as marketing, productivity, and operations data.
The data will be de-identified before the sale is complete, containing no customer information or personally identifiable information.
A US bankruptcy judge will consider approving the data sale at a court hearing.
Spirit also received a US$7.5 million bid from Mercor, an AI data company.
Spirit is selling off assets in bankruptcy after shutting down its business in May due to high debt and high fuel costs.
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