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by fearoffish 2161 days ago
Analysing data dumps for https://haveibeenpwned.com is one of the data intensive things he’ll do. That’ll suck the life out of the computer.
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From the website [1]:

> Fortunately, today's modern cloud services like Microsoft Azure make it possible to do this without breaking the bank!

So I'd guess it's not for that.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/About

In the post, but easy to miss:

>I do a lot of data processing in SQL Server which can be really memory intensive (no, the cloud is not always the solution to this, I've got a draft blog post on that)

Add to that: video/photo editing, live-streaming, development, and general purpose usage, and it's not an unreasonable setup.

seems like the sort of thing that would be better suited to an AWS instance (or azure, if you're a regional director at microsoft) rather than running a crazy power-hungry computer as your primary workstation.
He may very well have it locally for better security when doing some of tne analysis and other work for getting those dumps.