SCP-3330 — SCP-3330 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-3330 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-3330

Expected annual

$10.7M

One-time setup

$383.3M

Annual recurring

$9.4M

Personnel

One-time startup and hardening dominated by procurement/installation of SRAs and large contingency reserves (~$383M total one-time); annual operations driven by media monitoring, purge operations, research, staffing and SRA maintenance (~$9.38M/yr).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $383.3M

Global Remediation Reserve $300.0M

[#31] Worst-case global purge & remediation reserve (order-of-magnitude one-time response fund).

Contingency Reserve $50.0M

[#27] Reserved contingency fund for large-scale remediation / catastrophic response planning (emergency pool).

Equipment $30.9M

[#1, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #25] Archival safe and transport case (#1), SRA procurement/installation planning (15 units assumed) (#3), UPS arrays installation (#4), standby generators hardware (#5), encrypted hardware token/HSM (#7), access control & CCTV setup (#8), IT/HSM/air-gapped hardware setup (#25).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.4M

[#12, #13, #14, #16] Acoustic isolation chamber and recording/analysis equipment (#12), forensics/spectrographic equipment setup (#13), controlled-performance safety hardware/protocol infrastructure (#14), initial amnestic R&D/sourcing one-time cost (#16).

Facilities $1.0M

[#2] Site construction/modification for Site-64T within Site-59; provisional containment room fit-out, civil work, secure doors, interlocks and CCTV integration.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.4M/yr

Media Monitoring $1.5M/yr

[#17] Global media monitoring, audio fingerprinting, SOC operations, legal takedowns and platform coordination.

Staff Wages $1.4M/yr

[#9, #10, #11, #13] Core containment team salaries (project lead, researchers/technicians) (#9), incremental security guards (#10), SRA maintenance engineers/technicians salaries (#11), forensics staff salaries portion (#13).

Physical Purge Operations $1.2M/yr

[#18] Field teams for locating/removing anomalous physical copies and covert retrieval operations globally.

Research Budget $1.0M/yr

[#29] Ongoing fundamental research into propagation, detection and mitigation strategies.

Legal And Pr $750K/yr

[#20] Legal, diplomatic and public-relations cover operations including takedown notices and settlements.

Replica Production And Distribution $500K/yr

[#19] Creation and distribution of non-anomalous replicas, licensing and PR cover-material campaigns.

Emergency Extraction Team $400K/yr

[#22] Readiness, training, equipment and logistics for rapid extraction/recovery teams (SCP-2400 access).

Medical Services $300K/yr

[#15] Medical and psychological staffing, amnestic administration capability and treatment readiness.

Containment Audit $300K/yr

[#24] Ongoing audits, record alteration and historical edits to sanitize references in archives.

Psychological Aftercare $300K/yr

[#28] Counseling, long-term monitoring and follow-up amnestics for exposed civilians.

Forensics Staffing And Compute $250K/yr

[#13] Ongoing staffing, licenses and compute costs for spectrographic analysis, glyph detection and cognitive hazard modeling.

It Operations $250K/yr

[#25] Operations for hardened air-gapped backups, HSM maintenance, intrusion detection and cyber audits.

Amnestic Supply Replenishment $200K/yr

[#16] Ongoing supply replenishment for amnestic pharmaceuticals and related logistics.

Sra Spare Parts $150K/yr

[#11] Spare parts inventory, consumables and replacements for SRAs and related hardware.

Training And Drills $150K/yr

[#21] Regular containment, SRA-failure and evacuation simulations and contractor-facilitated drills.

Consumables And Spares $150K/yr

[#30] Replacement/lifecycle consumables: batteries, seals, archive materials, PPE, amnestic stock replenishment.

Generators Fuel And Maintenance $125K/yr

[#5] Fuel procurement, generator maintenance, testing and compliance for standby generators.

Access Monitoring Ops $80K/yr

[#8] CCTV monitoring operations, storage retention and access control operations.

Ups Maintenance $60K/yr

[#4] UPS/battery maintenance contract and lifecycle replacements for SRA/containment UPS arrays.

Power And Utilities $60K/yr

[#6] Increased electricity and utility consumption for SRAs, UPS, HVAC and high-power research equipment.

Facilities Maintenance $50K/yr

[#2] Ongoing site maintenance for containment room/buildout infrastructure.

Acoustic Chamber Maintenance $50K/yr

[#12] Calibration, software licenses and maintenance for acoustic isolation lab and analysis stations.

Vetting And Counterleak $50K/yr

[#23] Background checks, psychological screening, polygraphs and counter-leak HR controls.

Admin Overhead $40K/yr

[#26] SOP documentation, signage, forms, and administrative staffing to support day-to-day containment.

Performance Testing And Training $12K/yr

[#14] Annual testing, training and verification of controlled performance safety measures and emergency shutoffs.

Encrypted Backup Custody $6K/yr

[#7] Annual secure custody audits, air-gapped backup maintenance and key custody workflows for encrypted digital copy.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.4M/yr

93.8% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with no major incidents; routine maintenance, monitoring, staffing and research continue.

no public leak SRAs functional regular operations

🚨 Minor Incident $14.4M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Localized SRA failure or small leak requiring anchor replacements, repair, targeted purge and medical response.

single SRA failure localized performance leak emergency replacement & medical response

🚨 Major Breach $59.4M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Partial containment breach propagating into public channels requiring regional takedowns, large amnestic deployments and emergency SRA redeployments.

public upload propagation cascade among localized communities multiple SRAs destroyed

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $309.4M/yr

0.2% probability / year +$300.0M vs baseline

Full cascade-level event requiring global remediation: mass amnestic campaigns, worldwide PR buys, international operations and new SRA network deployment.

widespread public performance propagation international media cascade loss of SRA network

👥 Personnel 13 total

Role	Count	Notes
Project Lead / Research Scientist	1	Senior project lead responsible for custody of encrypted copy and oversight of containment operations (mapped to #9).
Research Scientist	3	Researchers/technicians for memetic analysis, forensics and experiments (mapped to #9, #13).
Engineer / Maintenance (SRA team)	3	Specialized engineers for SRA maintenance, calibration and UPS support (mapped to #11).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	3	Incremental armed guards and QRT coverage for containment area (mapped to #10).
Medical Officer	1	Medical/psychological staff for amnestic administration and aftercare (mapped to #15).
Administrative Staff	1	Containment admin, SOP management and record control (mapped to #26).
Forensics / IT Specialist	1	Digital/forensic analyst to run audio fingerprinting and secure backups (mapped to #13, #25).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are anchored to analyst ranges and explicit line items, but large uncertainty remains around SRA procurement/R&D costs, probability of cascade events and contingency sizing; therefore medium confidence.

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