SCP-6760 — SCP-6760 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6760 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-6760

Expected annual

$8.6M

One-time setup

$14.4M

Annual recurring

$8.4M

Personnel

Initial capital costs are dominated by facility buildout, on-premise compute/storage, redundancy and an incident-response reserve (~$14.45M one-time). Recurring annual costs are driven by staff wages, power/cooling, insurance/reserve funding, and ongoing R&D/monitoring (~$8.37M/yr).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $14.4M

Equipment $5.7M

[#2, #5, #7, #17, #25, #29, #33] On-premise compute cluster (mid-range), enterprise storage arrays (SAN/NAS), HSMs/crypto hardware, specialized containment hardware/anchors, physical security systems, emergency containment equipment, and initial archival media purchase aggregated.

Facilities $4.0M

[#1] Hermetically controllable Euclid-wing lab upgrade: Faraday cage, EMP/EMI shielding, blast/biocontainment doors, vestibules and guarded antechamber; mid-range new-build estimate used.

Incident Response Reserve $2.0M

[#30] One-time contingency/reserve fund set aside for rapid incident response, emergency contracting and specialist hires.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M

[#15] Seed R&D program for ontokinetic/semiontological stabilization: multidisciplinary research setup, specialized instrumentation and initial experiments.

Offsite Redundancy $1.0M

[#23] Capital cost for a cold/hot failover site including duplicate compute and storage for disaster recovery.

Software Integration $300K

[#12] Initial software engineering to integrate CROM.aic into SCP-6760, test harnesses, safe-mode paths and verification.

Dataset Ingestion $200K

[#14] One-time dataset acquisition, licensing for initial ingestion, cleaning and indexing pipelines.

Cover Story And Legal Setup $200K

[#21] One-time front company / legal structure and records-control setup to establish plausible deniability and administrative cover.

Decommissioning $100K

[#35] Secure destruction and decommissioning protocols, certification and contractor costs for media/hardware destruction.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.4M/yr

Staff Wages $3.0M/yr

[#9, #10, #11] Core research & engineering salaries, ops/sysadmin/datacenter technicians, and physical security personnel wages (24/7 coverage).

Research And Monitoring $1.5M/yr

[#13, #16, #28] Ongoing software maintenance, V&V, specialized anomalous mitigation program operations, and red-team containment/safety testing.

Insurance And Reserve $1.0M/yr

[#22] Annual self-insurance / contingency funding to replenish reserves for breach response and remediation.

Facilities Maintenance $600K/yr

[#4] Power, cooling, UPS, backup generator fuel and PUE overhead to run compute cluster and HVAC.

Compute Cloud Bursting $500K/yr

[#3] Pay-as-you-go cloud GPU/TPU bursts, secure colocation rental and cross-site compute failover costs.

Cover Story And Legal $500K/yr

[#21] Recurring legal counsel, cover-entity maintenance, FOIA responses and PR/records control budget.

Offsite Maintenance $200K/yr

[#24] Regular DR drills, replication checks and maintenance of redundancy site.

Offsite Replication $150K/yr

[#6] Off-site air-gapped snapshots, tape rotation and geographic replication for DR and information containment.

Cybersecurity Operations $150K/yr

[#8] SIEM, IDS/IPS licenses, endpoint protection, encrypted telemetry and 24/7 SOC monitoring.

Dataset Licensing $150K/yr

[#14] Ongoing dataset licenses, web-crawl costs and ingestion pipelines.

Misc Overhead $150K/yr

[#34] Administrative overhead: office space, non-technical utilities, travel, recruitment and small capex replacements.

Monitoring Infosphere $100K/yr

[#27] Active web/infosphere monitoring, takedowns, legal DMCA actions and platform cooperation.

Psychological Services $100K/yr

[#19] Psychological screening, counseling and memetic-safety programs for exposed staff.

Ethics Oversight $100K/yr

[#32] Independent audits, external review panels and documentation redaction/archive reviews.

Operator Training $50K/yr

[#31] Operator recertification, safe-question protocol training and ongoing user education.

Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr

[#18] Consumables for containment experiments, single-use reagents, seals and experiment-specific materials.

Security System Maintenance $30K/yr

[#26] CCTV, biometric and smart-lock subscription and maintenance costs.

Long Term Archival Rotation $30K/yr

[#33] Periodic rotation and maintenance of long-term archival media (tape refreshes, rotation logistics).

Vetting And Clearance $20K/yr

[#20] Background checks, continuous vetting and clearance processing for new hires and ongoing monitoring.

Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.4M/yr

89.5% probability / year

Normal year with no notable incidents; standard operations, maintenance, and planned R&D.

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🚨 Minor Incident $8.9M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline

Limited information leak or isolated misuse requiring forensics, legal takedowns and limited emergency response.

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🚨 Major Breach $13.4M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Significant containment breach or large-scale illicit publication requiring failover, replacement hardware and multi-month remediation.

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🚨 Catastrophic Breach $33.4M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Severe containment failure with widespread exposure or ontological side-effects requiring large-scale remediation, decommissioning or ritualized mitigation.

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👥 Personnel 30 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist / ML Engineer	12	Mapped to [#9]; core AI researchers and ML engineers maintaining CROM.aic and SCP-6760.
Engineer / Sysadmin / Datacenter Technician	6	Mapped to [#10]; 24/7 operations staff, system administrators, hardware lifecycle management and SRE duties.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	12	Mapped to [#11]; armed guards, access controllers and rapid response teams for site security and antechamber control.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and realistic ranges, enabling a mid-confidence estimate; significant ranges on compute/cluster sizing, reserve policy and incident frequency reduce precision.

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