Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million

The data will be de-identified before ‌the sale is complete, ​containing no customer information or personally identifiable ⁠information

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Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million

Key points

  • A U.S. bankruptcy judge will consider ‌approving the data sale at a Wednesday court hearing [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS.
  • Spirit also received a $7.5 million bid from ‌Mercor, an AI data business.
  • Spirit ​is selling off assets in bankruptcy ⁠after shutting down its business ⁠in May due to high ‌debt and high…
  • A U.S. bankruptcy judge will consider ‌approving the data sale at a Wednesday court hearing.

The data will be de-identified before ‌the sale is complete, ​containing no customer information or personally identifiable ⁠information

Published – August 18, 2026 10:34 am IST

Reuters

A U.S. bankruptcy judge will consider ‌approving the data sale at a Wednesday court hearing [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS

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.

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Alphabet’s ​Google is acquiring internal ‌business data from bankrupt ​Spirit Airlines for $10 ⁠million, saying it plans to apply the data ‌for product development and training its AI ‌models.

The acquired ‌data ⁠includes Spirit ⁠Airlines’ employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, spreadsheets, and calendars.

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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