Gonna vote for the TED talk too. Lets back away from that slowly.
Nope, no hiding necessary and we'll make room. Is there a chance it might go boom? Because there's a few floors underground that are shielded and shored up, high security, where the arc reactor is powering everything. If you need some juice, that's the shortest easiest route. We can hook the tunnel into the backup reactor.
Smaller means we'll have more focus to stay on track. Still? Shame they're not in on this. It's right up their ally.