Yes. That's embarrassing...

The space platform foundation transfers power on its own to anything built on it, power poles are not needed. The ghosted power poles are incidental in this case.

1) What did you do? Using Remote view while character was on Vulcanus, I first ghosted some speed module 2's into one line of a large furnace array making both iron and steel located on Nauvis. While bots were placing the speed modules into the furnaces but before they had finished placing modules ...