🇺🇸 Google wants to buy a dead airline's internal messages for $10...
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
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Aug 19, 2026
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🇺🇸 Google wants to buy a dead airline's internal messages for $10 million.
Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May, and now Google wants roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and millions of employee records going back decades.
Customer data is excluded, but employee data isn't. A third party would strip identifying information before Google gets it, while keeping the links between records intact.
Why does Google want all of this? It says the data could help improve its products and AI models.
A bankruptcy judge decides tomorrow whether the $10 million sale can go ahead. The other bidder offered $7.5 million.
Turns out even a dead airline's inbox can be worth millions in the AI age.
Source: Axios / Writer: Daniyal
Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May, and now Google wants roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and millions of employee records going back decades.
Customer data is excluded, but employee data isn't. A third party would strip identifying information before Google gets it, while keeping the links between records intact.
Why does Google want all of this? It says the data could help improve its products and AI models.
A bankruptcy judge decides tomorrow whether the $10 million sale can go ahead. The other bidder offered $7.5 million.
Turns out even a dead airline's inbox can be worth millions in the AI age.
Source: Axios / Writer: Daniyal
