SCP-7575 — SCP-7575 | Cost Breakdown

Read on SCP Wiki ↗

SCP-7575 Safe ? low confidence

SCP-7575

Expected annual

$6.5M

One-time setup

$11.7M

Annual recurring

$6.3M

Personnel

Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $11.675M driven by secure vault construction, specialized equipment, software development, R&D and large contingency reserves; annual recurring operations are approximately $6.3M driven by specialized personnel, security, ongoing monitoring, legal/cover operations and contingency replenishment.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.7M

Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.0M

[#17] Dedicated research & mitigation program initial multi-year investment (lab buildout, instruments, non-sapient research infrastructure).

Contingency Reserve $2.0M

[#24] Large contingency reserve for mass amnestic deployment, disaster relief, emergency neutralization attempts (initial reserve).

Equipment $1.7M

[#2, #3, #4, #6, #11] Faraday/EM/optic shielding and vibration isolation; robotic handling/manipulator hardware; air-gapped storage hardware; secure compute cluster hardware; backup power & environmental redundancy hardware.

Software Development $1.2M

[#5] Custom machine-only analysis software & automated redaction development (formal verification, sandboxing).

Records Replacement Fund $1.0M

[#15] Contingency fund for retroactive record manipulation, paid actors, forged documents (initial tranche).

Long Term Site Purchase $500K

[#8] Land purchase / large up-front control of discovery region (option for outright purchase vs lease).

Legal Cover Initial $500K

[#14] Initial legal/cover-up & PR budget (initial retainers, settlements, fabrication costs).

Incident Response Equipment $500K

[#19] Emergency extraction & rapid-response MTF equipment, emergency robotics, transport vehicles (initial equip).

Facilities $300K

[#1] Vault construction/retrofit (soundproofing, tamperproof storage, HVAC isolation, fire suppression, robotic ports).

Compliance Initial $300K

[#22] Initial diplomatic / covert legal actions (Canada & international) to misdirect investigations (initial payments/retainers).

Data Cleanup Initial $250K

[#20] Initial data-cleanup and ERDC forensic containment (non-human parsing infrastructure, quarantined archival work).

Retrieval Logistics $200K

[#7] Initial site recovery and transport (helicopter lift, heavy-lift team, immediate containment, expedition planning).

Training Development $150K

[#25] Development of non-human-safe training materials and initial training systems (blind/machine-mediated formats).

Amnestic Stock $100K

[#13] Initial chemical amnestics stock and field kits.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.3M/yr

Staff Wages $2.4M/yr

[#9, #10] Specialized containment & memetic safety team salaries and 24/7 armed site security rotation (permanent staff costs).

Research Program Ongoing $500K/yr

[#17] Ongoing R&D, memetics/epistemic mitigation research, non-sapient decoder development and associated staff/fees.

Contingency Replenish $500K/yr

[#24] Annual replenishment/contribution to contingency reserve for mass incidents and large-scale anomalous side effects.

Monitoring And Intel $350K/yr

[#12] Global internet/dark-web monitoring, crawling infrastructure, subscriptions, threat analysts and takedown operations.

Lease And Local Ops $300K/yr

[#8] Ongoing land lease payments, local cover operations, payments to local agencies and misinformation operations if not purchased outright.

Legal And Public Relations $250K/yr

[#14] Ongoing legal fees, covert PR retainers, settlement funds and contingency for local/national interactions.

Incident Response Readiness $250K/yr

[#19] Readiness/standby costs for rapid-response MTF, maintenance of emergency robotics and alternative site hosting readiness.

Facilities Maintenance $200K/yr

[#1, #11] Ongoing maintenance of vault systems, HVAC/isolation upkeep, fire suppression, generator/UPS maintenance oversight.

Software Support $200K/yr

[#5] Ongoing support, patching, and hardened runtime maintenance for automated redaction and non-human analysis software.

Records Replacement Replenish $200K/yr

[#15] Ongoing budget for retroactive record manipulation and bureaucratic backfill as incidents occur.

Social Continuity Payments $200K/yr

[#21] Ongoing funds for dependents' replacement/social continuity, relocations, and long-term support to prevent inquiries.

Media Takedown Ops $200K/yr

[#23] Active takedown contracts, cyber-ops for content removal and legal takedown operations.

Auditing Enforcement $150K/yr

[#18] Administrative overhead for enforcement of testing prohibition, periodic audits, insider-threat monitoring and investigations.

Compliance Diplomatic $150K/yr

[#22] Ongoing diplomatic, covert legal work to manage cross-border investigations and maintain cover stories.

Compute Maintenance $120K/yr

[#6] Power, hardware maintenance and redundancy costs for secure compute cluster / isolated AI.

Amnestic Replenishment $100K/yr

[#13] Replenishment of chemical amnestics, field medics supplies and medical protocols maintenance.

Psych Support $100K/yr

[#16] Psychological screening, counseling, and staff-rotation programs for containment personnel.

Data Archival $50K/yr

[#20] Long-term quarantined archival storage, forensic containment and non-human parsing archival costs.

Training Refresher $50K/yr

[#25] Annual refresher training and compliance materials (non-human formats, retraining programs).

Air Gapped Maintenance $30K/yr

[#4] Maintenance and integrity checks for air-gapped, tamper-protected ERDC storage hardware and write-once archival.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

[]

Research And Monitoring $0/yr

[]

Logistics And Transport $0/yr

[]

Cover Story And Legal $0/yr

[]

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.3M/yr

94.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incident; routine containment, monitoring, and legal/cover operations only.

no_major_exposure routine_operations

🚨 Minor Incident $7.3M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline

Localized leak or accidental ERDC/knowledge exposure requiring targeted amnestic use, emergency response, and limited legal payouts.

accidental_viewing localized_public_leak small_amnestic_response

🚨 Major Breach $16.3M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Widespread erasure(s) or public/media exposure leading to mass amnestic deployment, large contingency drawdown, international legal crises and major continuity operations.

mass_erasure_event public_media_exposure multiple_ERDC_leaks

👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Containment Technician / Memetic Safety Officer	9	[#9] Specialized containment & memetic safety team (6–12 FTEs represented here).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	16	[#10] Armed site security rotation (12–20 guards represented here).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates map directly to analyst line items but overall confidence is low because SCP-7575's memetic, retrocausal and scale-dependent effects are inherently unpredictable and can massively change costs; contingency sizing is the largest uncertainty.

← SCP-7574 ↑ All SCPs SCP-7576 →