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SCP-2522 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2522
Expected annual
$2.9M
One-time setup
$1.8M
Annual recurring
$2.7M
Personnel
6
One-time setup estimated at approximately $1,780,000 (mainly specialized containment, servers and R&D); recurring annual operations roughly $2,694,000/yr driven by staff wages, insurance/contingency, external monitoring/honeypots and ongoing R&D/forensics.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.8M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#21] Initial R&D / project fund for multi-year containment research (kill-switches, sandboxes, analog storage research).
Equipment $420K
[#3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #9, #11, #17, #20, #28] Capital hardware: RF feedthroughs, jamming arrays (capital), spectrum analyzers, lead-hazard initial controls, secure air-gapped servers, initial backup media, wired workstations, monitoring software acquisition, spare hardware pool initial, and per-event decommissioning equipment costs.
Facilities $255K
[#1, #2, #12, #13, #30] Structural and room-level work: lead-lined concrete cell, Faraday integration, HVAC/mantrap/physical security installation and baseline note on overall program scale.
Power Infrastructure $90K
[#10] UPS and generator capital + installation.
Vetting Initial $15K
[#16] Initial background checks/clearance costs for on-site staff (approx. $5k/person assumed for core staff).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.7M/yr
Insurance And Contingency $1.0M/yr
[#29] Annual contingency/insurance reserve replenishment for catastrophic escalations.
Research And Monitoring $610K/yr
[#5, #17, #18, #21, #27] Ongoing monitoring/support: spectrum monitoring service, monitoring/SIEM support, external honeypot program, continuing R&D grants, forensic/reverse-engineering support.
Staff Wages $455K/yr
[#14, #15] Salaries and benefits: 4full-time guards (~$250k), 1 FTE sysadmin (~$85k), 1 FTE AI researcher (~$120k).
Incident Response And Task Force $300K/yr
[#19] Maintain on-call specialists, training, equipment and readiness for rapid containment response.
Cover Story And Legal $100K/yr
[#22] Legal counsel, cover-story/PR, settlements and covert suppression activities baseline.
Logistics And Transport $50K/yr
[#23] Dr. Everett Mann separation enforcement, travel, relocation monitoring costs and logistics for personnel movement.
Administrative Overhead $50K/yr
[#26] Communications, documentation, change control and administrative staff overhead.
Facilities Maintenance $37K/yr
[#6, #10, #12, #13] Annual maintenance and testing: Faraday/lead inspections, generator/UPS maintenance & fuel, HVAC service, physical security maintenance.
Jamming Maintenance And Power $30K/yr
[#4] Power and maintenance specific to active jamming arrays (separate from site energy baseline).
Training And Drills $25K/yr
[#24] Regular tabletop exercises, simulations and staff refresher training.
Supplies And Consumables $20K/yr
[#7, #9, #11, #20] PPE/lead monitoring, media replacement/vaulting, workstation/cable replacements and spare-hardware refresh pool refresh.
Power And Energy $12K/yr
[#25] Continuous electricity for server, HVAC and baseline monitoring (excludes high-power jamming uplift captured separately).
Vetting Recurring $5K/yr
[#16] Ongoing clearance maintenance, periodic polygraphs/psych screening costs for staff.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.7M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with no major incidents; routine operations, monitoring and maintenance.
no breaches routine maintenance standard monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $3.3M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$595K vs baseline
Localized containment incident or targeted intrusion attempt requiring forensic response, limited hardware decommissioning and elevated PR/legal response.
targeted exploit attempt limited data exfiltration site-level containment response
🚨 Major Breach $8.9M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$6.2M vs baseline
Significant breach with public exposure or wide network infiltration requiring large-scale legal action, emergency contingency deployment, relocation and accelerated R&D.
digital omnipotence / large-scale infiltration public exposure / litigation site relocation / mass decommissioning
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#14] Four full-time guards to provide 24/7 coverage for cell hallway and perimeter.
System Administrator 1 [#15] 1 FTE for daily monitoring, server maintenance and logging.
Research Scientist / AI Researcher 1 [#15] 1 FTE (0.5-1 FTE suggested in notes; rounded to 1) for oversight, interpretation and research.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges allowing reasonable mid-point estimates; however the object's potential for broad network infiltration and 'digital omnipotence' creates significant upside risk and makes tail-costs uncertain, hence medium confidence.
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