did you forget that electric poles don’t match the tiling grid? Big electric poles are being changed to match the grid / extended to have 32 tiles of range. They mentioned that way back with the rail changes in https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-377 Unless they backtracked this change somewhere alo...

This Is going to make huge defense walls with flamethrower turrets much more expensive to run and set up. Not only do we need power for the pumps to keep all the flamethrower turrets supplied at all, but now I'll have to use pumps where, as it stands now, I don't have to use any. A simple requester ...