Spirit Airlines may have declared bankruptcy this spring, but the budget airline is still worth something—to AI giants, at least. In mid-August, Google won a $10 million bid to purchase some 34 years of the airline’s data, from invoices and flight operations information to Wi-Fi sales, employee records, and crew pairings.
In a statement, a Google spokesperson said the data “can be helpful in improving our products and AI models.” The sale would not include customer data, and Google “will not receive any personal information from this dataset,” the spokesperson said. The winning offer, chosen over a competing $7.5 million proposal from AI data…
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