SCP-6363 — SCP-6363 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6363 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-6363

Expected annual

$20.5M

One-time setup

$54.5M

Annual recurring

$20.2M

Personnel

Estimated one-time establishment costs of approximately $54.45M driven by facility build-out, large contingency/crisis reserves, and long-term R&D; ongoing annual operations ~ $20.23M/year driven primarily by staffing, cyber operations, hosting, legal/PR, and monitoring.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $54.5M

Crisis Reserve $20.0M

[#30] Large crisis reserve for catastrophic/global amplification events.

Long Term Research Fund $10.0M

[#28] Multi-year long-term R&D fund for durable countermeasures (neurotech/pharmacological).

Facilities $7.0M

[#1] Hardened facility build-out for AI servers, MEMEX labs, secure viewing rooms, backup power and access control.

Buyout Host Compensation $5.0M

[#22] One-time buyouts/host compensation to remove large cloud-stored copies.

Contingency Reserve One Time $5.0M

[#23] One-time contingency reserve for legal/claims or large remedial actions.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.5M

[#3, #12, #13] AIC development, memetic research lab setup, and memetic test development one-time costs.

Emergency Takedown Reserve $2.0M

[#11] One-time emergency/rapid-response discretionary fund reserve.

Litigation Reserve $1.0M

[#9] One-time litigation reserve for major takedown cases and emergency legal actions.

Device Remediation Development $800K

[#26] Development of device-level remediation tooling (initial development).

Equipment $150K

[#14] Secure viewing/testing equipment (single-frame displays, shutters, PPE) one-time purchase.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $20.2M/yr

Staff Wages $6.5M/yr

[#7, #19] Ongoing payroll for human moderators and core personnel (researchers, engineers, security, ops).

Cyber Operations $3.0M/yr

[#8] Cyber ops, lawful intercepts, zero-day tooling, covert removal on closed networks and private servers.

Research And Monitoring $2.4M/yr

[#12, #17, #18, #13] Ongoing memetic research operations, epidemiology analytics, and memetic testing administration; includes R&D staff/experiment costs and mass-monitoring analytics.

Cover Story And Legal $1.8M/yr

[#9, #25] Legal team payroll/operational costs and media management/cover-up budget (PR firms, crisis comms).

Public Health Campaign $1.0M/yr

[#16] Ongoing public-health/information campaign and inoculation rollout activities (baseline).

Third Party Retainers $800K/yr

[#21] Retainers for forensics firms, cloud providers, and content-ops contractors.

Facilities Maintenance $600K/yr

[#2] Power, HVAC, physical security, routine maintenance for the secure facility.

Hosting And Compute $500K/yr

[#4] Hosting and compute costs for AIC inference, hashing, and model retraining (cloud or private GPUs).

Platform Licensing $500K/yr

[#6] Platform API / commercial moderation licensing, rapid-removal agreements and retainers.

Clinical Treatment $500K/yr

[#15] Psychiatric care, quarantine capacity and treatment for highly susceptible individuals.

Insurance Premiums $500K/yr

[#23] Containment-failure insurance premiums and legal contingency premiums.

Diplomatic Liaison $500K/yr

[#10] Diplomatic and government liaison staffing, indemnities and protocol maintenance.

Logistics And Transport $300K/yr

[#20] Secure communications, vehicles, urgent deployments, and chain-of-custody transport costs.

Red Team $300K/yr

[#18] Adversarial testing and obfuscation/red-team work to find bypasses and new variants.

Device Remediation Updates $300K/yr

[#26] Ongoing updates, distribution and support for device-level remediation tooling.

Emergency Takedown Fund Topup $200K/yr

[#11] Annual top-up for the emergency takedown/rapid-response fund.

Whistleblower Program $200K/yr

[#27] Outreach, compensation and retainer for ethical disclosure channels and whistleblowers.

Vetting And Clearance $150K/yr

[#24] Internal security vetting, background checks, reinvestigations for cleared staff.

Regulatory Monitoring $150K/yr

[#29] Continuous legal and regulatory monitoring across jurisdictions.

Data Storage $100K/yr

[#5] Secure storage, backups, archival replication and encryption for retained media.

Supplies And Consumables $30K/yr

[#14] Consumables and maintenance for secure viewing/testing equipment and PPE.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $20.2M/yr

94.5% probability / year

Normal operational year with routine monitoring, research, and modest emergency fund top-ups.

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🚨 Minor Incident $21.7M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline

Localized surge requiring expedited takedowns, short-term legal action, and increased cyber ops.

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🚨 Major Breach $50.2M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline

Significant containment failure requiring large buyouts, extended legal campaigns, and mass remediation.

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🚨 Catastrophic Breach $170.2M/yr

0.1% probability / year +$150.0M vs baseline

Global amplification event requiring emergency national/international action, tapping crisis reserves.

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👥 Personnel 83 total

Role	Count	Notes
Human Moderator	50	[#7] Trained moderators to adjudicate borderline images; shift coverage 24/7.
ML Engineer	6	[#3, #19] Engineers to build/maintain AIC detection and takedown systems.
Research Scientist	8	[#12, #28] Neuroscientists and psychologists conducting memetic research and countermeasure R&D.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	11	[#2, #19] Armed security and physical access control for the facility.
Cyber Operations Specialist	5	[#8] Operators performing intercepts, covert takedowns and dark-web operations.
Administrative Staff	3	[#19] Administrative and program support staff (operations, scheduling, procurement).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are mid-range selections from wide analyst ranges; many line items (cyber ops, buyouts, contingency reserves, crisis costs) have extreme uncertainty depending on containment strategy and prevalence (>50% exposure). Facility/equipment costs are better bounded; operational and covert expenditures are low-confidence.

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