Google pays $10M for Spirit Airlines' emails, Teams chats and employee data

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Google has acquired Spirit Airlines' internal data trove for $10 million through a bankruptcy auction. The purchase includes approximately 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, 30 million lines of code, and records of over 175,000 employees. The defunct carrier's archives are seen as valuable because they document real workplace workflows in granular detail. Such step-by-step operational data is considered highly useful for training AI agents to navigate complex business tasks. Privacy advocates have raised concerns about how effectively the promised anonymisation of sensitive employee records will be carried out.

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