Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (with Twitter). Pipes! That data isn't static either. As Derek said in a sibling comment, they setup hundreds of Gbps of pee

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (with Twitter). Pipes! That data isn't static either. As Derek said in a sibling comment, they setup hundreds of Gbps of peering. Each 100 Gbps gets you a Petabyte per day (roughly). Planning the move and doing the tooling to keep stuff synchronized takes longer than the actual transfer once you've got say 800 Gbps (just 30 days ish). And again, you're going to have lots of data churn per month, so you want pipes anyway.