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Google just bought 100 million emails and 500 million Teams chats from a dead airline for $10 million.

Spirit shut down on May 2 with $8.1 billion in debt, and the bankruptcy court is selling everything. JetBlue paid $58.5 million for 22 LaGuardia gate slots. Google paid a sixth of that for the company's entire digital exhaust. Employee records back to 1986. Pricing data on 7.2 billion competitor flights. Booking curves, refund histories, 30 million lines of production code.

Run the per-unit math. 600 million internal messages for $10 million works out to under 2 cents per thousand. Spirit charged $69 for a carry-on.

Why does Google want a budget airline's inbox? Frontier labs have strip-mined the public internet, and the thing models are still worst at is exactly what this dataset contains. Real enterprise work. How a pricing decision actually gets argued out over email. How an ops team handles a grounded fleet in a 2am Teams thread. What production code looks like with all the compromises left in. You can't scrape that. It only exists inside companies, and companies only sell it when they die.

Mercor, the losing bidder at $7.5 million, has been paying individual workers for documents from their old jobs. That is the retail version of this trade. Bankruptcy is the wholesale version.

17,000 employees were laid off in May. Every email they wrote over 34 years was just sold as raw material for the systems built to do their old jobs. The workers got severance. The work sold for $10 million.

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Google just bought 100 million emails and 500 million Teams chats from a dead airline for $10 million. Spirit [Airlines] shut down on May 2 with $8.1 billion in debt, and the bankruptcy court is selling everything. JetBlue paid $58.5 million for 22 LaGuardia gate slots. Google paid a sixth of that..