Google buys a dead airline's data hoard: 500M Teams chats, 100M emails for $10M
Bankruptcy auctions have a new customer: AI labs. Google outbid Mercor in Spirit Airlines' court-supervised sale, paying $10 million for the carrier's corporate remains — 100M+ emails, 500M Teams chats, 30M lines of code, models, and operational data. The internet was already eaten, so model trainers now harvest corporate graveyards to feed the next generation.