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.
> 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.
>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.