{"id":42103,"date":"2026-08-18T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/google-to-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-for-10-million\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:27:15","slug":"google-to-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-for-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/google-to-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-for-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Google To Buy Spirit Airlines Business Data For $10 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Google outbid Mercor. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that it&#8217;s only worth 10 million!! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/google-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-10-million-2026-08-17\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/google-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-10-million-2026-08-17\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/authors\/dietrich-knauth\/\">Dietrich Knauth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>August 17, 20265:23 PM EDTUpdated 14 hours ago<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Alphabet&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/GOOGL.O\">(GOOGL.O), opens new tab<\/a> Google is acquiring \u200binternal business data from bankrupt \u200cSpirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans to use the data \u200bfor product development and \u200btraining its AI models.<\/p>\n<p>Jumpstart your morning with the latest legal news delivered straight to your inbox from The Daily Docket newsletter. Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsletters\/daily-docket\/?location=article-paragraph&amp;redirectUrl=%2Flegal%2Flitigation%2Fgoogle-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-10-million-2026-08-17%2F\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The acquired \u2060data includes Spirit Airlines&#8217; \u200bemployee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, \u200bspreadsheets, and calendars, as well as marketing, productivity, and operations data.<\/li>\n<li>The data \u200bwill be de-identified before \u200bthe sale is complete, containing no customer \u200cinformation \u2060or personally identifiable information.<\/li>\n<li>A U.S. bankruptcy judge will consider approving the data sale at \u200ba Wednesday \u200bcourt \u2060hearing.<\/li>\n<li>Spirit also received a $7.5 million bid from \u200bMercor, an AI data \u200bcompany.<\/li>\n<li>Spirit \u2060is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/jetblue-wins-auction-spirits-laguardia-flight-slots-2026-07-20\/\">selling off<\/a> assets in bankruptcy after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/spirit-airlines-lawyer-says-high-jet-fuel-prices-left-carrier-no-alternative-2026-05-05\/\">shutting down its business<\/a> in \u2060May \u200bdue to high \u200bdebt and high fuel costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/New_Development_6871\"> \/u\/New_Development_6871 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1vro6jj\/google_to_buy_spirit_airlines_business_data_for\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1vro6jj\/google_to_buy_spirit_airlines_business_data_for\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-42103 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='42103' data-nonce='9de69db8d5' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-42103 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-42103 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google outbid Mercor. I&#8217;m surprised that it&#8217;s only worth 10 million!! https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/google-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-10-million-2026-08-17\/ By Dietrich Knauth August 17,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}