SCP-6176 — SCP-6176 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6176 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-6176

Expected annual

$1.4M

One-time setup

$3.4M

Annual recurring

$1.3M

Personnel

One-time setup and capital (retrofit, compute cluster, robotics, secure storage and contingency) are large (~$3.36M) driven by compute/robotics and contingency funds; annual operations are ~ $1.31M/yr driven by staff wages, on-site security, compute maintenance and cybersecurity monitoring.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.4M

Containment Escalation Contingency $2.0M

[#25] Contingency budget for reclassification/relocation/site transfer and new facility build (as-needed fund).

Compute Infrastructure $300K

[#4] Kederesk.aic dedicated compute cluster: servers, GPUs, UPS, datacenter rack fit-out and redundancy.

Robotics Initial $300K

[#7] Industrial-grade autonomous/AI-controlled robotics for in-room intervention (arms, locomotion, tooling).

Secure Disposal Equipment $200K

[#22] Equipment/protocols for disposal or neutralization of emergent iterations; research-level options.

Insurance Reserve Seed $200K

[#18] One-time seed for insurance/liability reserves and classified contingency funds.

Facilities $80K

[#1] Room conversion of Wing G: demolition, reinforcement, secure door, seals, signage, permits.

Network Isolation Setup $75K

[#6] Air-gap, physical/logical firewalls, enclave hardware and tamper detection initial setup.

Fail Safe Airlock $62K

[#8] Emergency mechanical access airlock and mechanical systems for human-entry contingency.

Isolation Hvac Install $50K

[#2] Independent HVAC install with HEPA/chemical filtration and automated isolated ventilation.

Equipment $32K

[#3] Sensor suite initial purchase (LIDAR, thermal, acoustic, EM, pressure sensors, archival camera hardware).

Secure Storage $30K

[#5] On-site encrypted SAN/NAS and encryption appliances; initial cold-store setup.

Legal Documentation $20K

[#12] One-time legal/administrative setup, documentation, controlled record creation.

Contractor Vetting Per Engagement $15K

[#24] One-off costs to vet and stage outside contractors (per engagement).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.3M/yr

Staff Wages $500K/yr

[#9] Salaries for AI ops / systems engineers and robotics support (baseline 3–4 FTE equivalents covered here).

Security Personnel $200K/yr

[#10] 24/7 security presence for Wing G corridor, access control enforcement and patrols.

Cover Story And Legal $100K/yr

[#12, #13] Retained counsel, compliance, and cover-story/information-control costs.

Research And Monitoring $90K/yr

[#21, #23] Forensic/archival analysis, long-term archival funding and specialist contracts.

Compute Maintenance $60K/yr

[#4] Compute cluster maintenance, electricity, cooling for racks, spare parts and replacements.

Robotics Maintenance $60K/yr

[#7] Maintenance contracts, spares, software updates and on-call robotics servicing.

Insurance Liability Reserve Topup $50K/yr

[#18] Annual top-up for insurance/liability reserves and classified contingency funds.

Cybersecurity Monitoring $40K/yr

[#6] Ongoing monitoring, patching, pentests and IR retainer for network isolation and intrusion detection.

Incident Response Drills $40K/yr

[#11] Specialized response team training, tabletop exercises and periodic live drills.

Medical Monitoring $30K/yr

[#17] Medical readiness, emergency contingency and long-term psychiatric monitoring for staff/subjects.

Maintenance Contracts $30K/yr

[#20] Extended warranties and spare-parts inventory service contracts to avoid human entry for routine fixes.

Energy Costs $20K/yr

[#19] Power for servers, HVAC, sensors and robotics.

Disposal Maintenance $20K/yr

[#22] Ongoing maintenance and readiness for disposal/neutralization equipment and protocols.

Psychological Screening $15K/yr

[#14] Screening and ongoing mental-health surveillance for staff who handle metadata.

Fail Safe Training $12K/yr

[#8] Training, drills and readiness costs for emergency mechanical human-entry procedures.

Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr

[#1, #8] Ongoing building/room upkeep, airlock mechanical maintenance and general facility repairs.

Supplies And Consumables $10K/yr

[#3, #7, #20] Consumables (sensor consumables, robotic tooling/spares, small-parts inventory).

Secure Storage Maintenance $9K/yr

[#5] Backup rotation, growth provisioning, tape rotation and secure offsite backups.

Sensors Maintenance $6K/yr

[#3] Calibration, maintenance and occasional replacement for sensor suite.

Logistics And Transport $5K/yr

[#24] Minor recurring logistics for staged contractor interactions and small transports.

Isolation Hvac Maintenance $3K/yr

[#2] HVAC filter replacement, purge system maintenance and periodic servicing.

Human Perception Experiments $0/yr

[#15] Per-experiment cost 50k–300k; baseline assumes none authorized (set to 0 in baseline recurring).

D Class Lifecycle Per Person $0/yr

[#16] Per-D-class lifecycle cost 15k–50k; zero in baseline unless human-perception experiments occur.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.3M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year with standard monitoring, maintenance and no authorized human-perception experiments or breaches.

no breach no human-exposure experiments routine maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $1.5M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Localized containment incident or equipment failure requiring emergency repairs, forensics and legal response.

sensor/robot failure isolated containment compromise minor evidence recovery

🚨 Major Breach $3.8M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline

Major containment breach or unsafe SCP-6176-Prime manifestation requiring site lockdown, relocation or large-scale containment escalation.

prime instance manifestation ACC compromise requiring relocation or Thaumiel-level response

🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $1.6M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline

Policy-authorized human-perception experiments or major autonomy R&D push that expands program scope and costs.

authorized human-exposure experiments autonomy R&D spike scale-up of compute/robotics

👥 Personnel 4 total

Role	Count	Notes
AI Operations Engineer	2	On-shift AI/ops engineers to manage Kederesk.aic, sensor metadata pipelines and monitoring; covered within staff_wages [#9].
Senior Systems Engineer	1	Senior engineer for systems architecture, cybersecurity liaison and datacenter upkeep; covered within staff_wages [#9].
Robotics Engineer	1	Robotics specialist for autonomous manipulators, maintenance planning and software updates; covered within staff_wages [#9].

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges but many items have wide ranges and policy-dependent choices (e.g., whether human perception experiments are allowed, degree of autonomy R&D), so cost estimates are mid-range approximations with moderate uncertainty.

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