SCP-7594 — SCP-7594 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-7594 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-7594

Expected annual

$6.3M

One-time setup

$9.4M

Annual recurring

$6.1M

Personnel

Initial capital/setup costs are approximately $9.4M driven by secure SCIF construction, on‑prem compute/storage, and large contingency reserves; ongoing annual operations are about $6.1M driven primarily by staff wages, security/SOC, research and software/infra maintenance.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $9.4M

Containment Escalation Fund $5.0M

[#32] Reserve for major escalation requiring relocation, additional datacenters, expanded force protection, or emergency contractors.

Facilities $1.2M

[#1] Secure facility/SCIF construction with TEMPEST shielding, Faraday cage, reinforced access controls and biometric locks.

Equipment $1.0M

[#2, #3] Server hardware (GPU/CPU racks, UPS, PDU) and storage arrays / SAN/NAS with primary and mirrored backups.

Emergency Response Reserve $1.0M

[#24] Liquid reserve for rapid incident response, containment breaches, forensic hires, emergency isolation, and PR response.

Software Platform Initial Development $600K

[#6] Initial custom secure messaging layer, sandboxing wrappers, audit logging, and GUI development for RAISA/Reverb.AIC.

Truth Tooling Initial Development $250K

[#31] One-time development of continuous validation, provenance-tracing and automated fact-checking tooling.

Network Infrastructure $150K

[#5] Hardened switches/routers, dedicated fiber, HSMs and redundant uplinks (one-time procurement/installation costs).

Failsafe Design $150K

[#26] One-time design and implementation of software+hardware kill-switches and redundant shutdown mechanisms.

Secure Destruction Per Event $50K

[#25] Per-decommission event certified data-wiping, degaussing and physical destruction contractor costs (one-time per event).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.1M/yr

Staff Wages $3.2M/yr

[#8, #9, #10, #20, #21, #17] Salaries and benefits for AI/ML team, systems/devops, 24/7 SOC, data curators, human-in-the-loop operators, and physical security staff.

Behavioral Ai Safety $500K/yr

[#12] Budget for containment experiments, formal verification, alignment research and safety testing.

Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr

[#22] Legal counsel, PR, cover-entity maintenance and controlled public narratives.

Software Maintenance $250K/yr

[#7] Ongoing bug fixes, patching, dependency updates, and small feature work for chat/indexing platform.

Model Retraining Compute $200K/yr

[#13] GPU hours, spot instances or on-prem compute for retraining, fine-tuning and sandbox experiments.

Research Partnerships $200K/yr

[#29] External contracts and periodic partnered studies under NDA for specialized emergent behavior analysis.

Procurement Cover Ops $200K/yr

[#30] Covert procurement via front companies, plausible records and covert logistics.

Red Team $150K/yr

[#11] Regular penetration testing, adversarial evaluation and contracted offensive security engagements.

Logging And Forensics $150K/yr

[#14] SIEM, immutable logging, automated analysis and long-term forensics storage costs.

Synthetic Media Monitoring $120K/yr

[#28] Tools and personnel to vet/generated media and prevent unauthorized dissemination of forged content.

Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr

[#18] Energy, HVAC, UPS maintenance and general facilities upkeep for server rooms and SCIF.

Audit And Access Program $100K/yr

[#15] RBAC programs, audit trails, background checks and re-authorization reviews.

Personnel Security Vetting $100K/yr

[#16] Background investigations, polygraphs, periodic vetting and security training costs.

Insurance And Cyber Liability $100K/yr

[#23] Cyber liability and specialized insurance premiums for research facilities.

Truth Tooling Maintenance $100K/yr

[#31] Ongoing maintenance and improvements for provenance-tracing and automated fact-checking tooling.

Secure Offsite Replication $80K/yr

[#4] Encrypted backups, off-site/cloud replication egress and retention budgets for disaster recovery and forensics.

Psychological Support $60K/yr

[#27] Counseling, resilience programs and staff training for personnel exposed to sentient system outputs.

Supplies And Consumables $50K/yr

[#33] Office supplies, spare parts, replacement drives, RMAs and misc. consumables.

Network Maintenance $30K/yr

[#5] Ongoing maintenance contracts and support for hardened network and cryptographic infrastructure.

Bandwidth And Transit $30K/yr

[#19] High-availability bandwidth for replication, backups and controlled remote access.

Failsafe Testing $30K/yr

[#26] Recurring testing and validation of kill-switches and hardware/software isolation procedures.

Research And Monitoring $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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Data Curation And Redaction $0/yr

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Human In The Loop $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.1M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Normal year with planned operations, routine maintenance, and no major incidents.

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🚨 Minor Incident $6.6M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline

A contained incident requiring emergency response, forensics, temporary escalations and PR/legal support.

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🚨 Major Breach $14.1M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$8.0M vs baseline

Significant containment escalation requiring relocation, large-scale decommission/quarantine, and extensive external contracting.

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👥 Personnel 30 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist / Lead Researcher	1	[#8] Senior lead researcher overseeing Reverb.AIC, research direction and containment policy.
Research Scientist / ML Engineer	3	[#8] Core ML engineers handling model development, interpretation and retraining.
ML Ops Engineer	1	[#8] MLOps role for deployment, sandboxing and model lifecycle management.
Systems & DevOps Engineer	3	[#9] Sysadmins and network engineers responsible for secure datacenter, backups and incident infrastructure.
Security Officer / SOC Agent	8	[#10] 24/7 SOC monitoring staff for intrusion detection, triage and continuous monitoring.
Security Officer / Physical Guard	6	[#17] Armed/unarmed physical guards, access screening and site patrols for SCIF entrance and perimeter.
Data Curator / Redaction Staff	4	[#20] Human curators for sanitizing inputs, redaction, provenance tagging and honeyfiles.
Human-in-the-loop Operator / Monitor	4	[#21] Trained operators supervising chats, verifying outputs and intervening on anomalous behavior.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes are detailed with explicit ranges for most line items, enabling mid-confidence estimates; uncertainty remains around model scale, frequency of incidents, and exact staffing configurations, so figures are approximate.

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