Google buys Spirit Airlines data in bankruptcy sale

Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data. AJ Dellinger reports for Gizmodo:

Google’s winning bid in the auction was priced at $10 million, outbidding Mercor, an AI training data giant. According to a notice published on the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York’s docket, as the winning bidder, Google is now the proud owner of more than 100 million company emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 30 million lines of code, development metadata, software models and algorithms, as well as revenue, aircraft operations and employee productivity data.

Companies continue to spread their tentacles to wherever data resides. The AI training models need to be fed, and they already ate all the data on the internet.