What’s all this hardware for? Storing and serving tiny tweets can’t need this? Is there something non-obvious in their service that could use a huge fraction o

What’s all this hardware for? Storing and serving tiny tweets can’t need this? Is there something non-obvious in their service that could use a huge fraction of the hardware? Media transcoding? If I were them I’d try to get back up as soon as possible with 10% that hardware even if it meant e.g no access outside the US or no media transcoding at all or whatever MVP version they can create.