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Google Wins Spirit Airlines Data Auction With $10M Bid

8/18/2026

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Google LLC won a U.S. bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' data with a $10 million bid, beating Mercor.io Corp.’s $7.5 million offer.
The dataset contains over 100 million emails, 500 million Teams chats and about 30 million lines of code and metadata.
Approximately 97.5 million passenger profiles and 50 million loyalty-program records are excluded and will be scrubbed before transfer.

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Story summary

Google LLC won a U.S. bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' data with a $10 million bid, beating Mercor.io Corp.’s $7.5 million offer.
The dataset contains over 100 million emails, 500 million Teams chats and about 30 million lines of code and metadata.
Approximately 97.5 million passenger profiles and 50 million loyalty-program records are excluded and will be scrubbed before transfer.