Google LLC × Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc.
Google LLC acquired a vast trove of internal corporate data from the bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million. [1, 4] The sale, part of Spirit's Chapter 11 proceedings which began on August 29, 2025, was conducted via a section 363 auction. [1, 18] The dataset includes hundreds of millions of employee emails and messages, but explicitly excludes customer data and PII. [4, 6, 9]
The asset
A de-identified corporate dataset including employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, source code, and operational records from the defunct budget carrier.
- 100M employee_emails
- 500M microsoft_teams_messages
- 30M lines_of_code
- 17.1M onedrive_items
- 20.6M sharepoint_items
- 7.5B revenue_transactions
- 176k employee_records
The record
- Seller status
- Chapter 11
- Sector
- airlines
- Modalities
- text, source_code, structured_data
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket
- 25-11897 (SHL)
- Personal data
- Data to be de-identified by a third-party agent before transfer; the agreement bars the buyer from intentionally associating the data with any person or household. Customer profiles, loyalty memberships, and other passenger PII were explicitly excluded from the sale. [1, 4, 6, 19]
What it means if you hold data
This transaction is one of the largest known acquisitions of a bankrupt company's proprietary corporate data for the explicit purpose of training AI models. [4] It highlights the growing value of enterprise data 'exhaust' as a source for AI development, setting a potential precedent for future bankruptcy asset sales in the tech and media sectors. [1, 15]