In the Twitter thread linked, the person confirms two things:

1. It saturated the local network with 1TB of metadata sniffing scans, not the network uplink to the outside world.

2. It does so because, as Keurig notes, it’s collecting data about your household in order to let Keurig sell it to advertisers.

Reminds me when couple years ago I plugged the TV to the internet (so my relatives kids can watch YT) and I forgot to unplug it for almost a week after, only to find the router dns resolved (and blocked) a million queries, all from that one TV!

it took me a month to notice my Midea A/C was absolutely hammering my router

I didn't even know it had wifi capability but it was trying to connect

I use mac whitelist so it wasn't even getting in but that didn't stop it from trying every seond

Fortunately it was just a usb dongle so yanked it out