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SCP-245 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-245
Expected annual
$1.0M
One-time setup
$457K
Annual recurring
$996K
Personnel
8
Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $497,000, with recurring annual operations of roughly $996,500. Ongoing personnel (operators, researchers, IT, and security) and research/monitoring are the primary cost drivers.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $457K
Facilities $150K
[#1, #2] Dedicated secure containment room fit-out (reinforced doors, badge access, tamper alarms, CCTV) and initial electromagnetic/RF shielding installation (Faraday cage / filtered passthroughs).
Incident Response Reserve $100K
[#15] One-time contingency reserve for emergency procurement, external consultants, and rapid-response equipment purchases.
Equipment $87K
[#3, #4, #5, #11, #12] Airgapped host machines (5 units), LTO/tape drive and initial archival hardware, UPS/integration hardware, secure transfer hardware (write-blockers, burn/scan stations), and initial recording/CCTV/storage hardware.
Disaster Recovery Setup $40K
[#18] Establishment of secure off-site replica / disaster recovery vault and initial transport/placement costs.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $25K
[#10] Initial forensic/sandboxing/reverse-engineering software licenses and setup (one-time license procurement and configuration).
Legal And Cover Setup $20K
[#19] One-time legal/cover-story setup, NDAs, and initial PR/operational-security documentation.
Decommissioning And Destruction $15K
[#23] Budget for secure wiping and physical destruction of media upon decommissioning.
Psychological Screening Initial $10K
[#14] Baseline psychological screenings for ~10 personnel (initial evaluations and onboarding screening).
Documentation And Training Development $10K
[#16] Development of SOPs, training courses, and containment documentation (initial creation).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $996K/yr
Staff Wages $710K/yr
[#6, #7, #8, #9] Ongoing fully-loaded salaries: 3operators (24/7 coverage), 1 project head, 1 systems administrator, and incremental security staff (3 guards).
Research And Monitoring $125K/yr
[#13] Experimental/research budget for controlled interaction studies, mirror environments, compute time, and research staff time (operational experiments).
Supplies And Consumables $41K/yr
[#4, #10, #11, #12, #17] Tape media rotation and bit-rot checks, software license maintenance, transfer consumables (clean USBs, write-once media), storage retention costs, and spare hardware consumables.
External Consultancy $40K/yr
[#22] Retainers and occasional call-up fees for external cryptographers, game-engine experts, and anomalous-behavior analysts.
Cover Story And Legal $15K/yr
[#19] Ongoing legal counsel, PR maintenance, and operational-security legal costs.
Insurance And Audit $15K/yr
[#24] External audits, compliance reviews, and liability-related fees (external insurance-like budgeting).
Administrative Overhead $15K/yr
[#25] Procurement processing, background checks, badges, minor travel, and other admin overheads.
Logistics And Transport $12K/yr
[#18, #20] Secure transport/escorted transfers to off-site replica and routine chained transport operations.
Facilities Maintenance $7K/yr
[#2, #5] Annual certification/inspection of electromagnetic shielding and generator/UPS maintenance.
Equipment Replacement $5K/yr
[#3] Amortized refresh/replacement for airgapped hosts (4–5 year refresh cycle).
Training And Updates $5K/yr
[#16] Annual updates to SOPs and recurrent staff training.
Psychological Monitoring $4K/yr
[#14] Ongoing psychological follow-ups and monitoring for personnel interacting with SCP-245-1.
Utilities $3K/yr
[#21] Incremental electricity and facility utilities for hosts, HVAC, UPS, and recording equipment.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $996K/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine operations, no major incidents.
routine_operations scheduled_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $1.0M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$50K vs baseline
Small containment or software anomaly requiring emergency response and limited hardware replacement.
software_corruption limited_containment_anomaly
🚨 Major Breach $1.4M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$400K vs baseline
Significant containment incident requiring large-scale emergency response, external consultants, and incident fund drawdown.
major_containment_breach external_exposure large-scale_media_recovery
🚨 Research Breakthrough Scale Up $1.2M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Accelerated research year requiring additional staff, expanded compute, and procurement to scale experiments.
research_scale_up expanded_experimental_program
👥 Personnel 8 total
Role Count Notes
Operator / Monitoring Staff 3 [#6] 24/7 operators who run and monitor iterations (3 shifts).
Project Head / Senior Researcher 1 [#7] Scientific lead overseeing experiments and reporting.
Systems Administrator / IT Security 1 [#8] Maintains airgapped hosts, integrity checks, and secure-transfer procedures.
Security Officer / Guard 3 [#9] Incremental security staff for escorted transfers, overnight coverage, and site checks.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges for nearly all cost categories, but many figures are ranges and staffing/configuration choices drive large variance; hence medium confidence.
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