If you didn't know, when you overclock a machine in Satisfactory, the power requirement increases in a non-linear fashion, and it's governed by this formula.

It's here on the screen somewhere.

So if a machine requires four megawatts to produce a part at the default 100% clock speed, if you double the clock speed, it will now instead require 12.1 megawatts of power, which means if you do a lot of overclocking, you need more power than if you built more machines, essentially.

And the same is also true if you're underclocking a machine.

So if you're underclock, it will need less power.

So a machine that requires 4 megawatts at 50% will instead need 1.3 megawatts, which is less than half of the initial power requirement.

Hopefully that didn't sound too confusing, but that's how the system works right now.

Maybe you knew, maybe you didn't.

It's not super obvious.

So right now, the most efficient way to build factories in the game would be to put everything at 1% clock speed and build everything 100 times, which of course is not what we want people to do.