> [...] I was consulting for hired a notable CTO from the VFX business and all he cared about was making sure there was enough electricity supplied to the office. That was in about 2015 and I remember thinking he was clearly scarred by previous events and was long out of date.

You're likely being overly dismissive. Ensuring you have enough power is vital, and being wrong can set you back a year or longer while you wait for permitting, the actual service upgrade, and inspections to be completed.

I'm currently dealing with this right now with my startup and wish I'd begun the process a year earlier when I first expected it to be necessary; at the time, I'd assumed it could happen in a few months.

> You're likely being overly dismissive.

Not close. A Mac Pro trashcan is not going to cause anything like the same class of problem.

There was zero concern about having to increase the air conditioning capacity, for example.