Google paid $10M at bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' 100M internal emails, likely for AI training
peterwildeford · x · 2026-08-18
Google reportedly won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal corporate data at $10M, including roughly 100M employee emails, 500M Microsoft Teams messages, plus spreadsheets and calendars — presumably for AI training.
The author notes it's remarkable that auctioning corporate data to tech giants for training corpora is becoming the new normal, raising fresh questions about corporate data ownership and privacy.
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