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SCP-6595 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6595
Expected annual
$4.3M
One-time setup
$3.2M
Annual recurring
$4.2M
Personnel
10
One-time capital and specialized infrastructure costs are roughly $3.2M driven by archive and detection infrastructure plus an emergency reserve; annual recurring costs are approximately $4.225M, dominated by personnel, legal/liaison, ML/compute operations, and contingency/PR budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.2M
Emergency Escalation Reserve $1.5M
[#20] One-time emergency reserve for large-scale global remediation (platform buys, contractors, ad campaigns).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $400K
[#4] Initial ML model development and labeled dataset creation, research lab buildout for media forensics and ML experimentation.
Insurance Reserve $300K
[#15] Initial insurance / legal reserve sequester (one-time portion of recommended reserve).
Isp Deployment $275K
[#16] Initial coordination & deployment costs for network-level mitigations with partner ISPs/CDNs and MOUs.
Equipment $210K
[#2, #3] Digitization hardware and initial on-prem server / GPU hardware purchases for ingestion, storage and inference.
Facilities $150K
[#1] Commercial archive vault upgrades: archival-grade HVAC, humidity control, inert-gas fire suppression, seismic mounting, anti-tamper doors, CCTV and badge access.
Takedown Pipeline Development $150K
[#5] One-time development/integration of automated monitoring/takedown pipeline, API integration, human review queue.
Waldo Implant Initial $85K
[#6] Initial implantation and persistence operations cost for Waldo.AIC instance in third-party archive(s).
Legal Special Ops $60K
[#8] Single complex subpoena / special legal ops one-time costs (mid-range estimate).
Training Curriculum Development $35K
[#13] Initial development of SOPs, safe-viewing curriculum and compliance materials.
Honeypot Content Production $20K
[#10] Initial controlled-honeypot content production and channel setup for controlled observation.
Endpoint Blocking Development $15K
[#22] Development and deployment of plugins/extensions and endpoint blocking tools for Foundation personnel.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.2M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $910K/yr
[#8, #14, #21, #23, #15] Ongoing legal & platform liaison, PR/coverstory budgets, forensic evidence handling reserves, external partnership retainer and recurring portion of legal/insurance reserve.
Staff Wages $800K/yr
[#7] Web-crawling / ML ops / analysts / threat hunters & content reviewers (6–12 FTEs; includes benefits).
Research And Monitoring $701K/yr
[#2, #3, #4, #6, #10, #24] Ongoing compute, storage, cold-archive rotation, ML inference & retraining operations, Waldo.AIC monitoring, honeypot ops, and media-forensics R&D.
Memetics Research Program $400K/yr
[#11] Specialist memetics program: psychologists, memeticists, lab resources, oversight (annual program budget).
Staff Security $300K/yr
[#18] On-site guards, background checks, insider-threat mitigation and contract security for vault/site.
Isp Maintenance $300K/yr
[#16] Ongoing costs to maintain ISP/CDN filters, coordination and MOU upkeep.
Clinical And Psych Care $200K/yr
[#12] Counseling, inpatient care, pharmacotherapy, long-term follow-up and compensation program budget.
Logistics And Transport $175K/yr
[#9] Field ops & digital forensics: travel, surveillance, safehouse/raids, covert ops equipment and forensic lab time.
Energy And Facilities $120K/yr
[#19] Power, UPS maintenance, generator fuel and redundancy for servers, vault and staff facilities.
Takedown Operations $96K/yr
[#5] Operations, bandwidth, API fees and human review costs for continuous takedown pipeline.
Forensic Tool Licenses $80K/yr
[#17] Content fingerprinting, video/audio analytics, speech-to-text and associated vendor license fees.
Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr
[#1] Vault utilities and maintenance (climate control, fire suppression upkeep, CCTV).
Supplies And Consumables $50K/yr
[#25] Replacement drives, tapes, camera gear, courier services, petty cash and small-ops consumables.
Plugin Maintenance $18K/yr
[#22] Ongoing maintenance and updates for endpoint blocking plugins/extensions.
Training And Audits $15K/yr
[#13] Annual refresher training, compliance audits and drills.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.2M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with standard monitoring, takedowns, research and routine single-case legal actions.
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🚨 Minor Incident $4.5M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Localized spike in uploads or a short-lived viral cluster requiring extra takedowns, field ops and limited emergency legal actions.
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🚨 Major Viral Outbreak $8.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
Wide, multi-platform viral spread or adaptive SCP variant requiring emergency escalation, large-scale platform buys, mass legal action and significant field operations.
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👥 Personnel 10 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / ML Engineer 4 [#7, #11, #4] ML model development, dataset labeling, memetics research and model retraining.
Digital Forensics Analyst 2 [#7, #9, #3] Video forensic analysis, provenance/tracing of uploads and assisted field ops.
Content Reviewer / Moderator 2 [#7, #5] Human review queue for takedown pipeline and initial triage of flagged content.
Engineer / Maintenance 1 [#3, #19] On-prem / infrastructure engineer for servers, backups, UPS and archive access.
Administrative Staff 1 [#7, #8, #23] Coordination with legal, platform liaisons, scheduling and reporting.
📋 Confidence Notes
Notes provide detailed line-item ranges allowing middling confidence in order-of-magnitude estimates, but memetic/digital behavior and viral dynamics are uncertain, so precise recurrence and spike costs are difficult to predict.
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