SCP-3625
Unknown
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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
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $3.5M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$3.5M/yr
Normal year with containment stable and only routine operations, monitoring, and planned research.
no breach
routine monitoring
scheduled research activity
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Minor Incident
$3.8M/yr
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
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Major Incident
$5.9M/yr
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.