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SCP-3360 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3360
Expected annual
$2.5M
One-time setup
$6.3M
Annual recurring
$2.3M
Personnel
6
First-year one-time costs are dominated by containment buildout and a large emergency contingency reserve, totaling about $6.27M one-time. Recurring annual costs are approximately $2.34M/yr driven primarily by staff wages, field removal/logistics, IT/online takedown operations, and legal/PR efforts.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.3M
Emergency Contingency Reserve $5.5M
[#24] Contingency reserve for large-scale public exposure, mass MTF mobilization, compensation and emergency legal/PR; held as one-time reserve (scenario-dependent).
Facilities $380K
[#1, #2, #12, #15] Containment cell construction, RF shielding, generator/UPS hardware, and one-time racking for archival storage; includes construction, grounding/testing, and facility modifications to Site-42 standards.
Antistallman Development $225K
[#7] One-time engineering and development of the ANTISTALLMAN webcrawler/takedown system, honeypots and covert takedown pipelines.
Equipment $86K
[#4, #5, #11] Initial CCTV hardware, dedicated air-gapped secure server & rack hardening, and initial spare-parts inventory for robotics (actuators, controllers, sensors).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $81K
[#3, #22] Environmental control and sensor suite for precise day/night logging and centering, plus initial budget for authorized replication/safe-build tooling and instrumentation for a small experimental fleet.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.3M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $510K/yr
[#18, #20] Public cover operations, PR management, restitution/settlements and legal/intelligence monitoring budget (HUMINT/cyber monitoring, legal retainers).
Logistics And Transport $460K/yr
[#16, #17, #23] Field removal and cleanup operations (MTF deployments) budget, transport/logistics for off-site tests and moving artworks, and per-unit disposal/destruction budget for confiscated civilian copies.
Staff Wages $450K/yr
[#9, #10] Core dedicated staff salaries: one Level 3 researcher and two full-time robotics technicians; onsite security guard staffing budget included here for rotation coverage.
Research And Monitoring $418K/yr
[#21, #25, #26, #27, #28] Annual research program budget (experimentation, analysis), training/drills/compliance audits, medical/psychological monitoring and subject handling, conservation/cataloguing of ML techniques, and secure documentation/records management.
It Ops $210K/yr
[#6, #4] Ongoing server/IT security operations for monitoring and takedown (ANTISTALLMAN maintenance), hosting, patching, operator/admin time, bandwidth; includes recurring storage/maintenance noted in CCTV item.
Online Countermeasures $162K/yr
[#19] Ongoing online countermeasure operations beyond webcrawler maintenance (paid takedowns, honeypots, legal proxies, covert ops to sink mirrors).
Facilities Maintenance $54K/yr
[#12, #15] Fuel and routine maintenance for backup generator/UPS; climate control and storage facility costs for evidence/conserved artworks.
Miscellaneous Contingency $30K/yr
[#29] Small unpredictable recurring costs (emergency overtime, ad-hoc surveillance, small repairs).
Access Control $28K/yr
[#8] Administrative recurring costs: site badges, background checks, clearance renewals and personnel monitoring to manage access to code and cell.
Supplies And Consumables $10K/yr
[#13, #14] Energy consumption for charging and environmental controls plus consumable testing supplies (art materials, PPE, cleaning).
Spare Parts Replacement $10K/yr
[#11] Recurring replacement of robotics spare parts (actuators, microcontrollers, sensors, batteries).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.3M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal year with steady containment, no major public escalation; routine takedowns and scheduled research/testing.
routine_operations periodic_takedowns no_large_exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $2.4M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
One or a few localized public exposures requiring MTF removal, modest PR/legal responses and extra takedown effort.
single_major_public_artwork localized_media_attention
🚨 Major Breach $4.8M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Sustained mass public creation or broad replication leading to daily MTF responses, widespread media exposure and large emergency expenditures.
daily_public_artworks mass_media_exposure multiple_copies_replicated
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Level 3 Researcher 1 [#9] Senior researcher responsible for test approvals and oversight.
Robotics Technician 2 [#9] Two full-time robotics technicians for maintenance, repairs and experiments.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 3 [#10] Onsite guards for rotation and night monitoring (minimum 2 on rotation; 3 allocated to cover shifts).
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items have wide published ranges (e.g., contingency reserve, field removal frequency, online takedown ops). Containment and staffing costs are well-defined, but public-exposure-driven costs dominate uncertainty, so confidence is medium.
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