SCP-3625 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-3625
Expected annual
$3.6M
One-time setup
$1.8M
Annual recurring
$3.5M
Personnel
20
One-time capital costs for a hardened, redundant Faraday-shielded containment and analysis capability are roughly $1.8M, with recurring annual operating costs dominated by specialized staff wages and legal/monitoring/response budgets (~$3.49M/yr). Major cost drivers are personnel, web-monitoring/takedown & legal operations, and specialized lab/analysis equipment.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.8M
Long Term Research Program $500K
[#29] Seed funding for a multi-year program to research provably-safe containment, neutralization tech, and prototype development (initial tranche).
Facilities $450K
[#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #9, #30] Construction of a lockable, non-conductive containment chamber with optical baffling, mechanical shutters, hardpoints and integration into Site-81; Faraday cage build/grounding; shielded HVAC installation; blast/fireproof liners and electronics-compatible suppression; isolated power feed hardware; one redundant containment unit; planned decommissioning budget.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $350K
[#7, #8] Air-gapped forensic/hardware reverse-engineering lab buildout (JTAG, logic analyzers, scopes, microscopes, isolated benches); specialized power/energy-cell analysis instrumentation (calorimetry/X-ray/CT/remote handling) purchased and integrated.
Software Development $300K
[#20] Upfront development of ML/AI tooling, data-labeling pipelines, and scraping infrastructure to detect/generate/neutralize memetic content (initial dev cost).
Contracted Destructive Disposal $100K
[#24] Budget for a single contracted hazardous destructive disposal or remote incineration campaign (per-operation estimate reserved as one-time contingency).
Equipment $85K
[#6, #10, #17, #19] One-way data-diode/optical capture appliances and cameras; shock/EM-shielded transport cases and remote handling rigs; initial PPE and remote manipulators; analog/archival capture hardware and storage media.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.5M/yr
Staff Wages $1.9M/yr
[#11, #12, #13, #14] Salaries for specialized anomalous researchers, electrical/hardware engineers, information-security/cyber analysts, and 24/7 security guards (estimates based on 4 researchers, 3 engineers, 5 infosec analysts, 8 guards).
Research And Monitoring $570K/yr
[#15, #16, #20, #21, #26, #27] Incident response drills and training; psychological screening and memetic-resilience programs; ongoing software/AI compute and ops; baseline web monitoring; red-team/memetic propagation research; documentation and secure information-security overhead.
Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr
[#22, #28] Baseline in-house and external legal counsel, takedown legal actions, and baseline public-relations/cover-story maintenance budgets.
Contingency Reserve $300K/yr
[#25] Annual allocation to insurance/contingency reserves for unforeseen scale-ups, replacements, settlements or hush funds.
Covert Procurement $200K/yr
[#23] Off-books procurement, covert purchases, and black-ops budget to acquire restricted tools/data and maintain deniability.
Supplies And Consumables $38K/yr
[#6, #7, #17, #18, #19] Consumables for air-gapped lab and hardware analysis; annual support for data-diode/optical capture; PPE replacement and robotic tooling upkeep; sacrificial laptops/parts; archival storage media rotation.
Facilities Maintenance $22K/yr
[#2, #3, #4, #5] Annual Faraday recertification/testing; HVAC maintenance and power operations; fire-suppression upkeep; isolated power system maintenance.
Logistics And Transport $8K/yr
[#10] Annualized cost for secure transports and use of shock/EM-shielded cases, forklifts/cranes and convoy operations (per-move costs averaged annually).
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.5M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with containment stable and only routine operations, monitoring, and planned research.
no breach routine monitoring scheduled research activity
🚨 Minor Incident $3.8M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$350K vs baseline
Small containment incident or localized hardware destruction requiring emergency response, limited takedown activity, and replacement hardware.
local device overcharge/destruction limited leak requiring takedown one contracted testing/disposal operation
🚨 Major Incident $5.9M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.4M vs baseline
Widespread leak or propagation event requiring large-scale takedown campaigns, major litigation/PR response, large contracted disposal/testing and extended emergency operations.
high-volume online redistribution major legal/PR crisis large contracted destruction or multi-site response
👥 Personnel 20 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 4 [#11] Senior anomalistics/memetics researchers leading study and program management (avg salary ~160k).
Engineer / Maintenance 3 [#12] Electrical/hardware engineers for isolation, power systems and safe hardware handling (avg salary ~120k).
Information Security / Cyber Researcher 5 [#13] Analysts maintaining monitoring systems, scraping infrastructure, classification and counter-meme design (avg salary ~110k).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 [#14] 24/7 on-site guards with memetic-resilience training and rapid-response capability (avg salary ~50k).
📋 Confidence Notes
Notes provide detailed line-item ranges for most categories allowing medium confidence in order-of-magnitude estimates; uncertainty remains in episodic high-cost events (takedowns, destructive disposal) and in how frequently external testing/large legal incidents occur.
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