SCP-2267 — SCP-2267 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-2267 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-2267

Expected annual

$2.0M

One-time setup

$825K

Annual recurring

$2.0M

Personnel

Initial one-time setup is moderate (~$0.8M) dominated by secure facility buildout, servers, and bespoke crawler development; annual operating costs are ~ $2.0M driven by staff wages, legal/PR/takedown budgets, platform access, and contingency for incident response.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $825K

Software Development $275K

[#1] Initial crawler development, ML classifier, data labeling pipeline and secure ingest integration (3–6 engineers/ML devs for initial build).

Facilities $250K

[#6] Secure room/datacenter buildout, physical access controls, Faraday shielding and environmental monitoring.

Equipment $245K

[#3, #4, #7, #8, #26] Secure ingest servers/SAN and HSMs, long-term archival hardware (LTO/tape library), forensic workstations/GPUs, evidence management setup.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $55K

[#23] Specialist research equipment for timeline divergence analysis and associated initial lab setup.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.0M/yr

Staff Wages $745K/yr

[#2, #11, #12, #13] Ongoing developer/analyst (crawler maintenance), dedicated researchers/analysts, data scientists/ML-Ops, and sysadmin/site security engineer salaries.

Contingency Overhead $393K/yr

[#28, #29] Contingency and overhead (20–30% of operating budget) and alignment with total ballpark estimates.

Cover Story And Legal $120K/yr

[#14] In-house counsel/retainer and takedown coordination costs (platform legal liaison and takedown processing).

Pr Cover Campaigns $100K/yr

[#17] Budget for PR/astroturfing or diversion campaigns used if content attracts public attention.

Amnestic Treatment Reserve $100K/yr

[#18] Inventory and small-scale amnestic treatment capacity reserve for subject-level memetic containment.

Incident Response Reserve $100K/yr

[#22] Rapid-response reserve covering emergency hires, travel, overtime and short-notice contracting.

Platform Feeds $60K/yr

[#15] Enterprise API access, data feed contracts and platform agreements for high-rate crawling and expedited removals.

Anti Blocking Infrastructure $60K/yr

[#16] IP rotation, proxy/residential IP services, CAPTCHA-solving and human-in-the-loop anti-blocking costs.

Data Labeling $50K/yr

[#10] Contractor/intern costs for annotation, transcription and metadata tagging.

Audit And Red Team $35K/yr

[#20] Annual security audits, penetration tests and simulated leak drills.

Facilities Maintenance $30K/yr

[#21] Energy, cooling, lighting and general facility operating costs for secure room/datacenter racks.

Research And Monitoring $30K/yr

[#23] Ongoing research funding, experiments, and academic collaborations for timeline divergence analysis.

Software Licenses $22K/yr

[#9] Commercial analysis suites, codecs, forensic tools, CI/CD and ticketing systems licenses.

Software Maintenance $22K/yr

[#25] CI/CD infrastructure, artifact storage, monitoring stack hosting and support contracts.

Secure Courier $18K/yr

[#19] Vetted courier transfers, tamper-evident containers and chain-of-custody logistics.

Colocation Rack Space $15K/yr

[#6] Colocation / secure rack space recurring fees if not fully self-hosted.

Personnel Training $15K/yr

[#24] OPSEC, memetic-safety and analyst training programs.

Long Term Archival $12K/yr

[#4] Media refresh and maintenance for tape/optical cold storage.

Bandwidth And Connectivity $12K/yr

[#5] High-bandwidth links for crawling and bulk video transfers.

Media Migration $10K/yr

[#27] Periodic media refresh / migration (annualized cost of 3–7 year cycles).

Power And Hosting $7K/yr

[#3] Operating costs for secure ingest servers (power, cooling, rack power draw).

Evidence Management Maintenance $6K/yr

[#26] Maintenance & legal storage costs for evidence cataloging and immutable logs.

Secure Network Support $3K/yr

[#7] Maintenance/support contracts for firewalls, HSM support and encrypted appliance licenses.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.0M/yr

89.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine crawling, analysis and maintenance; no major public incidents.

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🚨 Minor Incident $2.2M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Localized viral event or platform resistance requiring extra PR, takedowns and extended incident response.

viral_upload_spike platform_pushback limited_public_attention

🚨 Major Breach $4.0M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Large-scale public exposure or platform-wide refusal to cooperate, triggering mass PR, legal battles and large-scale memetic remediation.

major_viral_event platform_refusal_to_cooperate mass_public_exposure

👥 Personnel 7 total

Role	Count	Notes
Software Engineer / ML Developer	1	[#1, #2] Initial crawler build and ongoing maintenance (0.5–1 FTE mapped to 1 FTE for budgeting).
Research Scientist	3	[#11, #23] Dedicated researchers analyzing content, provenance and timeline divergence (2–4 researchers mapped to 3).
Data Scientist / ML-Ops	2	[#12] Model improvement, anomaly detection and deployment (1–2 mapped to 2 for budget alignment).
Sysadmin / Site Security Engineer	1	[#13] 24/7 incident response rotation, server integrity and intrusion detection (1 FTE).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are derived directly from analyst ranges in the notes and combined into midpoints; many line items (platform cooperation, viral rate, amnestic scope) are scenario-dependent producing moderate uncertainty.

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