{"id":868218,"date":"2026-08-25T19:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:58:55","slug":"google-to-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-for-us10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868218\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to buy Spirit Airlines&#8217; business data for US$10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key points<\/p>\n<p>Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for US$10 million ($14 million) to use for product development and AI training.<br \/>\nThe data covers employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, spreadsheets, calendars, and marketing, productivity, and operations data, and will be de-identified before sale.<br \/>\nA US bankruptcy judge will consider approving the sale at a court hearing, with Mercor having also bid US$7.5 million for the data.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_ucArticle_imgImage\" width=\"748\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787687935_160_ImageResizer.ashx.jpeg\" alt=\"Google to buy Spirit Airlines' business data for US$10 million\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines \u200cfor US$10 million ($14 million), saying \u200cit \u200cplans to \u200cuse the data \u2060for product development and training its AI models.<\/p>\n<p>The acquired data includes \u200bSpirit Airlines&#8217; employee emails, Microsoft Teams \u2060messages, spreadsheets, and calendars, as well as marketing, productivity, and operations data.<\/p>\n<p>The data will be de-identified before the sale is complete, containing no \u200bcustomer information or \u2060personally identifiable information.<\/p>\n<p>A US bankruptcy judge will consider approving \u200bthe data sale \u200cat \u2060a court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit also received a US$7.5 million bid \u200cfrom Mercor, an AI data company.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit is selling off assets in \u200bbankruptcy after shutting down its business in May due to high \u200cdebt \u2060and high \u200bfuel costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key points Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for US$10 million ($14 million) to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-868218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}