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Updated · Computerworld · Sep 4

Micro1 Offers $12.5 Million for Spirit’s 600 Million Employee Records After Google’s $10 Million Bid

Updated

Updated · Computerworld · Sep 4

Micro1 Offers $12.5 Million for Spirit’s 600 Million Employee Records After Google’s $10 Million Bid

1 articles · Updated · Computerworld · Sep 4

$12.5 million is Micro1’s new offer for Spirit Airlines’ employee and operational data, topping the $10 million bid that previously won the bankrupt carrier’s auction.
The trove spans about 600 million emails and chats from 17,000 employees, plus 17 million OneDrive files, 20.5 million SharePoint items and more than 30 million customer-service call recordings.
That scale makes the archive valuable for AI training, but it also contains sensitive, decades-old workplace records that former employees and unions are trying to keep from being sold.
More than 5,500 Spirit flight attendants are still represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which says workers object to the sale while unpaid vacation, sick leave and other compensation remain unresolved.
Anonymizing the data is being explored as a possible compromise, underscoring how bankruptcy asset sales are colliding with the AI industry’s demand for real-world corporate data.

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