Why Google just paid $10 million for Microsoft Teams chats of a dead and bankrupt airline

Google has agreed to pay $10 million for the digital remains of Spirit Airlines, and the shopping list is stranger than the price tag. The package includes roughly 100 million company emails spread across 80,000 accounts, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, about 30 million lines of code, and more than 175,000 employee records with a system of record running back to August 1986. Judge Sean Lane was set to consider the sale in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday morning.

Spirit stopped flying on May 2, midway through its second Chapter 11 in two years, having filed with around $8.1 billion in debt and laid off roughly 17,000 people.