SCP-6399 — SCP-6399 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6399 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-6399

Expected annual

$3.9M

One-time setup

$4.2M

Annual recurring

$3.9M

Personnel

Initial capital costs are substantial (approx. $4.18M) driven by servers, contingency reserve and a secondary site; recurring annual costs are roughly $3.62M driven mainly by specialized staff, ongoing safety/retraining and monitoring.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.2M

Equipment $1.2M

[#1] Dedicated secure server cluster (GPU/CPU, storage, SAN/NAS).

Contingency Reserve $1.0M

[#27] Contingency fund / liquidity reserve for anomaly-induced incidents (one-time reserved).

Disaster Recovery Initial $500K

[#29] Initial second-site standby copy / reduced-capacity replica (capital).

Facilities $300K

[#2] Server room buildout (rack space, HVAC, Faraday, physical containment).

Software Development $250K

[#6] Development of human-in-the-loop gateway (engineering and QA).

Network Gateway Initial $175K

[#4] Hardened gateway / HSM / DPI / TLS interception appliance (initial).

Decommissioning And Destruction $150K

[#28] Secure wipe, destruction and sanitization procedures (one-time decommissioning).

Output Tooling Initial $105K

[#18] Interfaces/apps for reviewer workflow, versioning and safety checks (initial).

Power Infrastructure $100K

[#3] UPS sizing and site generator (capital).

Long Term Logging Initial $80K

[#13] Tamper-evident logs (WORM), cold backups initial hardware/setup.

Software Licenses Initial $75K

[#12] Secure OS/virtualization and enterprise software initial fees.

Personnel Security Initial $75K

[#16] Initial background checks / polygraphs for ~15 people.

Forensic Tools Initial $50K

[#17] Forensic and audit tools (initial purchase/integration).

Editing Tooling Initial $50K

[#19] Editing automation & grammar tooling (initial).

Training Initial $40K

[#31] Initial SOP manuals and onboarding training materials.

Legal Cover Initial $30K

[#20] Initial cover identities / domain registration / covert procurement setup.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.9M/yr

Staff Wages $1.8M/yr

[#7, #8, #9, #10, #15] RAISA operations engineers, Archival reviewers, content QA/classification specialists, red-team/incident responders, dedicated security staff.

Research And Monitoring $770K/yr

[#5, #11, #17, #21, #22] Continuous network monitoring/IDS, model retraining compute, forensic/audit recurring services, public internet leak detection, safety/alignment consulting.

Supplies And Consumables $200K/yr

[#12, #13, #19, #24] Recurring software licenses and middleware, long-term storage rotation and tape/cloud costs, editing automation licenses/updates, spare hardware consumables.

Site Overhead Allocation $200K/yr

[#32] Miscellaneous Site-65 overhead (HR, administration) allocation.

Classified Procurement Overhead $150K/yr

[#30] Covert procurement surcharge / front companies and false invoicing overhead.

Cover Story And Legal $145K/yr

[#20, #26] Ongoing cover operations, domain/hosting maintenance and legal/takedown/declassification workflow costs.

Public Monitoring And Osint $120K/yr

[#21] OSINT subscriptions and crawling services for leak detection with human triage.

Logistics And Transport $100K/yr

[#29] Recurring disaster-recovery replication, asynchronous backups and failover testing logistics.

Security Patch Management $80K/yr

[#25] Regular security upgrades, patch testing, staging and QA time.

Spare Hardware And Contracts $75K/yr

[#24] Spare drives, servers, batteries and service contracts for rapid failover.

Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr

[#14] Energy consumption, cooling, generator fuel testing and HVAC maintenance.

Psychological Support $40K/yr

[#23] Counseling, mandatory rotation and resilience programs for exposed staff.

Personnel Security And Clearance $34K/yr

[#16] Recurring background-check maintenance and periodic polygraphs/psych evals.

Output Tooling Recurring $32K/yr

[#18] Ongoing maintenance and bug fixes for reviewer interfaces and workflow tooling.

Forensic And Audit Services Recurring $25K/yr

[#17] Recurring forensic tool subscriptions and audit services.

Training And Documentation Recurring $20K/yr

[#31] Recurring refresher training and tabletop exercises.

Editing Automation Recurring $18K/yr

[#19] Recurring grammar/style tooling licenses and updates.

Declassification And Publication Workflow $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.9M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal year with planned operations, routine retrains, and no containment incidents.

routine_operations scheduled_retraining no_incidents

🚨 Minor Incident $3.9M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$-20000 vs baseline

Localized incident requiring incident response, short downtime, forensics and limited hardware replacement.

detected_exfiltration_attempt partial_model_corruption targeted_leak

🚨 Major Breach $5.1M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline

Major containment breach or anomalous output event requiring emergency shutdown, full forensic rebuild, legal/cover surge and possible decommissioning.

unauthorized_publication model_escape_vector_used extended_data_corruption

👥 Personnel 16 total

Role	Count	Notes
RAISA Operations Engineer / System Administrator	4	[#7] Senior AI ops engineers (4 FTE @ $150,000 fully-burdened).
Archival Department / Technical Editor	4	[#8] Archival reviewers/editors (4 FTE @ $90,000).
Content QA / Classification Specialist	3	[#9] Linguists and subject-matter reviewers (3 FTE @ $120,000).
Red-team / Incident Responder	3	[#10] Offensive testing and on-call incident response (team cost ~ $300,000/year).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	2	[#15] Dedicated guards for database/room (2 FTE contributing to security staffing costs).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates derive from analyst ranges in the notes but per-item ranges are wide (compute scale, containment posture); many recurring items depend on staffing/profile choices so certainty is moderate.

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