I love this take. I think what you're describing is very much happened with the Industrial Revolution. It was just a bunch of powerful, dangerous machines at first, doing small jobs faster. Scaling it up took the whole planet and a long time.

I think we are at the beginning of the second such journey. Lots of people will get hurt while we learn how to scale it up. It's why I've gone with dangerous sounding theming and lots of caution with Gas Town.

I only think it takes 2 years this time though.