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You might not be able to afford to build a new building to get that 100% production.
A new building also means double the maintenance cost, plus whatever cost it took to build.
Or might not have space on the resource for more. Or...etc. Lots of areas where you can't have more.
manpower is at a prime, power is cheap. 10 power is what a single well placed wind turbine generates.
There's also the fact that factories are one of the buildings you can amplify; since factories and fusion reactors are manned by engineers, you'd have to make sure to never add new factories to domes with crewed reactors or your power output can drop by 20-33% (in other words, 40-60-ish power loss) per person that leaves the reactor, which means if you don't have a new dome available you need to build one, which means moving people in, which means adding more houses and servicies, as well as running cables and pipes to it, which means increasing power, water, and oxygen consumption, which can mean having to add more of each, which increases maintenance... You get the idea. Unless you have an empty dome or one not connected to manned fusion reactors, it's actually much cheaper to apply the amplify upgrade to a factory than it is to build a new one outright.
Exactly, for maintenance only even with basic wind turbines, it's better to upgrade them than create new ones Then there is space involved, cost to build, drones needed to repair.
The only building where i tend no to make the automatic upgrade are concrete factories.
In real life maybe, but in the game, by the time I get my 4th dome I'm already wondering what I should do about all the unemployment.