A cynical take on these regulations is that they're a power grab by the CA and WA based big cloud vendors since users of powerful workstations will effectively be forced to offload their workloads to the cloud or buy a server if they want high performance with commercial business support. Well as it turns out, CA/WA is only a minority player in the desktop market, but they're significantly bigger in the cloud/server markets.

Netflix 4k isn't illegal despite being a completely frivolous use of electricity, but somebody professionals buying their own workstations is. Datacenters use 1% of power usage globally, the focus is on desktops.