SCP-1765 — SCP-1765 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-1765 Keter ? low confidence

SCP-1765

Expected annual

$81.3M

One-time setup

$1.1B

Annual recurring

$76.9M

Personnel

287

Estimated one-time capital and contingency needs are very large (~$1.14B), driven primarily by contingency/decommissioning reserves and on-site nuclear procurement/infrastructure; ongoing annual operations are estimated at roughly $76.9M/year, driven by security staffing, research programs, and server-farm operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.1B

Contingency Reserve $500.0M

[#31] Strategic one-time contingency reserve for full escalation, international cover, major clean-up or forced evacuation; large reserve per analyst note (#31).

Decommissioning Fund $300.0M

[#34] One-time decommissioning / environmental remediation contingent fund reserved for clean-up or destruction scenarios (#34).

Nuclear Procurement $200.0M

[#18] One-time procurement/legacy acquisition and immediate secure custody infrastructure costs associated with on-site nuclear devices as described (capital/legacy procurement and associated initial infrastructure) (#18).

Facilities $78.5M

[#1, #2, #8, #26, #25] Land acquisition/easements (#1), perimeter construction and hardening (#2), server-farm build/physical datacenter construction (#8), one-time infrastructure upgrades (access roads/helipads/powerline upgrades) (#26), and civilian relocation/compensation (#25).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $25.0M

[#16] One-time R&D capital for prototype containment hardware and initial research lab buildout/prototype funding (#16).

Equipment $18.9M

[#3, #11, #13, #20] Perimeter sensors and hardened comm links installation (#3), one-time cyber hardening tooling and hardware (#11), remote/robotic reconnaissance procurement/R&D (#13), and one-time HAZMAT kit/training and equipment (#20).

Personnel Replacement And Compensation $9.8M

[#7] One-time replacement of highly trained operatives, recruitment/training costs and victim/family payouts described in the analyst notes (#7).

Emergency Demolition One Time $5.0M

[#17] One-time procurement and emplacement of demolition/explosive options and related command-and-control hardware (#17).

Cover Story Setup $4.0M

[#22, #23] One-time cover story and legal setup, shell companies, false permits and initial amnestic/legal suppression stockpiles (#22, #23).

Generator Installation $2.0M

[#27] One-time installation of generator/fuel redundancy and related infrastructure (#27).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $76.9M/yr

Staff Wages $28.1M/yr

[#5, #6, #29, #30, #33, #9] Recurring fully-loaded wages and benefits for perimeter security guards and non-specialist security (#5), specialist rapid-response/MTF readiness staffing (#6), data analysis personnel (#29), memetic/cognitive safety team personnel (#30), program audit/oversight and executive staff (#33), and system administration/data-ops staffing portion for the server farm (#9).

Research And Monitoring $25.0M/yr

[#15] Ongoing specialized research and countermeasure R&D (temporal/structural dampeners, memetic safety, containment engineering) and program budgets, per analyst note (#15).

Nuclear Custody Recurring $6.0M/yr

[#18, #19] Recurring specialized secure vault monitoring, environmental controls, custodial teams and nuclear custody compliance costs (#18, #19).

Server Farm Operations $4.0M/yr

[#9, #10] Non-personnel recurring server-farm operations: power/cooling/electricity, hardware lifecycle replacement and other non-staff operational costs; recurring storage procurement is captured separately (#9, #10).

Supplies And Consumables $3.8M/yr

[#14, #24, #21, #32] Robotic fleet consumables and replacement probes (#14), amnestics/psychotropic medical stockpile recurring purchases and administration (#24), recurring HAZMAT monitoring and consumables (#21), and long-term archival media upkeep/periodic integrity checks (#32).

Cover Story And Legal $3.0M/yr

[#22] Recurring covert PR, legal bills, bribery/compensation to local officials and cover-up expenses ('black budget') (#22).

Facilities Maintenance $2.2M/yr

[#4, #26, #27] Perimeter sensor maintenance and ops contracts/calibration (#4), recurring infrastructure upkeep (roads/helipads/powerline/towers) (#26), and generator fuel/testing/maintenance (#27).

High Capacity Storage Procurement $1.8M/yr

[#10] Recurring procurement and maintenance of high-capacity storage and off-site encrypted backups for the large data volume produced by SCP-1765 (#10).

Cybersecurity And Audit $1.2M/yr

[#11, #12] Recurring cybersecurity staffing, continuous audits, red-team exercises and hardware integrity replacements; one-time tooling is captured in equipment (#11) and recurring audits/staffing are here (#12).

Personnel Medical And Mental Health $1.0M/yr

[#28] Recurring trauma counseling, occupational health and long-term monitoring for exposed personnel (#28).

Logistics And Transport $500K/yr

[#26, #9] Recurring logistics, vehicle/airlift support, resupply and transport operations supporting perimeter, remote ops and server farm, mapped to infrastructure upkeep and server-farm logistics (#26, #9).

Emergency Demolition Recurring $300K/yr

[#17] Recurring maintenance and training for emergency demolition/escalation capability (#17).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $76.9M/yr

91.5% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major containment incidents; routine operations, research and maintenance only.

routine operations scheduled research activities no breaches or escalations

🚨 Minor Incident $81.9M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Localized anomalous event or partial containment stress causing equipment damage, short MTF deployment and short-term increases in storage/analysis and robotic replacements.

localized reconstitution/reconfiguration events temporary data surge robotic probe losses

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $876.9M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$800.0M vs baseline

Major uncontrolled spread or decision to employ on-site escalation options (including nuclear option) resulting in major cleanup, decommissioning and international operations.

full containment collapse use of nuclear escalation option wide-area contamination or temporal destabilization

👥 Personnel 287 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	200	[#5] Non-specialist armed perimeter security staffing (24/7 patrols, gates) based on analyst range of 150–250 personnel.
Specialist rapid-response / MTF Agent	25	[#6] Elite on-call rapid-response teams and readiness personnel (training/rotations).
Research Scientist / Data Scientist	25	[#29] Data analysis personnel triaging large data streams (analyst range 10–50; mid chosen).
System Administrator / IT Staff	10	[#9] Sysadmin and secure server-farm operators supporting air-gapped infrastructure and storage.
Memetic / Cognitive Safety Team	8	[#30] Personnel performing memetic countermeasure R&D and red-team testing.
Site Director / Executive Staff / Oversight	5	[#33] Senior command, legal counsel and program oversight staff specifically assigned to the SCP-1765 program.
Medical Officer / Mental Health	4	[#28] Medical and mental-health staff for trauma counseling and long-term monitoring.
Engineer / Maintenance	10	[#26, #27] Facility engineers and maintenance staff for access roads, power systems, generators and physical infrastructure upkeep.

📋 Confidence Notes

Costs are high-uncertainty estimates: ranges in analyst notes are wide, many items (nuclear procurement, contingency draws, R&D scale, data volume) are highly speculative and scenario-dependent, so overall confidence is low.

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