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SCP-6804 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6804
Expected annual
$7.8M
One-time setup
$11.4M
Annual recurring
$7.7M
Personnel
32
Initial one-time setup is roughly $11.36M driven by secure, air-gapped facilities, content migration, servers, and an initial R&D seed; ongoing annual costs are about $7.66M driven primarily by staffing, R&D/monitoring, consumables, and legal/consulting.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.4M
Facilities $3.8M
[#1] Secure, air-gapped containment data center buildout: Faraday shielding, EMP protection, controlled access, separate HVAC, CCTV, secure racks and access controls.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.2M
[#23, #26] Testing lab and staged "feeding" environment (setup) and initial seed/phased grant for long-term R&D.
Content Migration Project $1.1M
[#8] One-time content migration and reformatting across the Foundation database (initial mass conversion effort).
Contingency Fund Initial $1.0M
[#25] Initial contingency & emergency restoration reserve fund (one-time seed).
Codebase Conversion Tooling $600K
[#15] One-time tooling and migration to convert source code, compilers, and repositories to containment-safe formats.
Hardened Server Cluster $525K
[#2] Dedicated hardened server cluster (compute, NVMe, WORM/immutable storage, HSMs) CAPEX.
Pipeline Development $390K
[#3] One-time development of automated copy/strip-color pipeline, verification software, QA and audits (initial development phase).
Viewer Terminals $375K
[#13] Specialized viewer terminals & sanitized workstations (initial purchase for ~50 terminals).
Immutable Archive Setup $350K
[#5] Initial immutable archive media & physical backup program (microfilm/optical WORM/metal etching) initial archive build.
Redundant Pipeline Setup $325K
[#4] One-time cost to duplicate pipelines across geographically separated sites (N+1 redundancy) and setup replication/reconciliation.
Siem Initial $215K
[#14] Initial deployment of enhanced file-integrity monitoring, SIEM/logging infrastructure, and immutable logging systems.
Font Development $175K
[#16] Custom fonts/encodings development and font-embedding strategy (one-time development costs).
Training And Sop Initial $150K
[#24] Initial training, policy documentation, SOP rollout and certification materials.
Licensing And Format Integration $70K
[#7] One-time licensing & integration for color-preserving formats, viewers, and format/tooling (PDF/A, color profiles, font licenses).
Teal Printing Hardware $68K
[#6] High-fidelity teal printing subsystem: industrial printers/press-level hardware and color-calibration initial purchase.
Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.7M/yr
Staff Wages $3.7M/yr
[#9, #10, #11, #12, #17] Staffing: containment IT/operations, research & analysis team, incident response/on-call, manual verification staff, and vault guard rotations (salaries + benefits and premiums).
Research And Monitoring $1.7M/yr
[#3, #7, #15, #16, #22, #23, #26, #27] Ongoing pipeline/software updates & audits, licensing/tool maintenance, code maintenance, font support, external consulting/forensics, testing lab operations, long-term R&D program, and audits/compliance monitoring.
Cover Story And Legal $550K/yr
[#21] Legal, cover-up, PR management, and public-facing content replacement expenses.
Facilities Maintenance $530K/yr
[#2, #4, #14, #18] Ongoing operations/maintenance of servers and redundant pipelines, SIEM recurring costs, and facility power/UPS/generator maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $335K/yr
[#5, #6, #19] Archive media refreshes, teal ink/pigment supplies, paper/ink lifecycle replacement and consumables refresh.
Contingency Replenishment $300K/yr
[#25] Annual replenishment for contingency & emergency restoration fund (replenishment/reserve management).
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#8] Ongoing content migration/formatting updates and associated operations logistics.
Psychological Support $175K/yr
[#20] Psychological support, medical monitoring, and indemnity program for exposed staff.
Data Format Insurance $110K/yr
[#28] Insurance premiums and decommissioning/migration costs for risky formats and reputational/legal coverage.
Training And Sop Maintenance $60K/yr
[#24] Annual refresher courses, SOP updates, certification maintenance.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.7M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; containment operations run as planned.
steady operations scheduled maintenance regular R&D and audits
🚨 Minor Incident $8.2M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized consumption event requiring emergency restoration, overtime, limited external forensics, and partial archive replacement.
localized data consumption temporary service outage small-scale legal/PR effort
🚨 Major Breach $12.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Widespread or indiscriminate consumption affecting large parts of the database and code repositories, requiring large-scale restoration, replacement of archives, extended external contracts, and major PR/legal work.
mass consumption across many documents binary/firmware contamination public exposure or large data loss
👥 Personnel 32 total
Role Count Notes
Engineer / Systems Administrator 8 [#9] Sysadmins, DBAs, and DevOps staff running pipelines and servers.
Research Scientist 6 [#10] Linguists, digital forensics, infohazard specialists, principal investigator-level staff.
Incident Response / On-call Team 6 [#11] 24/7 on-call rotations and emergency response personnel for consumption events.
Verification Technician / Content Reviewer 6 [#12] Human-in-the-loop reviewers performing manual verification of teal/non-teal conversions and document checks.
Security Officer / Guard 6 [#17] Physical security and vault guard rotations for offline archives and secure facilities.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, enabling a midpoint-based estimate, but many items have wide ranges and outcomes depend heavily on SCP behavior (speed/scope of consumption), so uncertainty remains.
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