SCP-7708
Safe
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medium confidence
SCP-7708
Expected annual
$163K
One-time setup
$36K
Annual recurring
$161K
Personnel
1.75
One-time setup costs are modest (~$35.8k) for containment, monitoring, and initial research; annual recurring costs are dominated by staff wages, site overhead and legal/memetic review (~$160.7k/yr). Major cost driver variability is site-level security/facility overhead and contingency for incident response or expanded research.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $36K
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $161K/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$161K/yr
Normal year with routine monitoring, maintenance, and no incidents.
routine monitoring
scheduled conservation
no unusual outputs or breaches
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Minor Incident
$181K/yr
Small containment/administrative incident requiring emergency response, additional legal/memetic review, or short-term specialist consults.
unexpected memetic output
minor accidental external disclosure
localized conservation issue
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Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up
$236K/yr
Significant research result or demand for extended studies requiring expanded staff, equipment purchases, and increased secure storage capacity.
sustained anomalous outputs
grant/operational decision to scale research
need for dedicated storage or expanded security
Personnel
1.75 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 0.5 | [#8] Part-time/pro-rated security resource or shared guard time to cover access control and audits; cost included in staff_wages. |
| Research Technician / Custodian (Level-2 Technician) | 0.25 | [#7] 0.1–0.25 FTE technician time for trials, logging, enclosure maintenance; cost pro-rated and included in staff_wages. |
| Archivist / Technician | 1.0 | [#9] 0.5–1.0 FTE archivist/technician for page handling, scanning, OCR and metadata; accounted for in staff_wages. |
Confidence Notes
Notes provide detailed line items for most categories, so direct hardware and staffing costs are fairly well constrained; uncertainty remains in site-level overhead/security allocation and frequency of incident-driven expenses, so confidence is not high.