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SCP-7766 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7766
Expected annual
$216.8M
One-time setup
$430.0M
Annual recurring
$215.6M
Personnel
710
Initial capital costs are dominated by compute hardware, deep-infrastructure and contingency reserves (~$430M one-time). Annual operations are driven by staff wages, power, compute refresh and facilities upkeep (~$216M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $430.0M
Equipment $241.0M
[#3, #5, #6, #9, #10, #11, #14, #30] Compute hardware purchase, initial tiered storage, VR stasis pods, security hardware fit-out, power redundancy capex, cooling install, physical retrieval rigs/cranes, and monitoring tooling (hardware-level one-time costs).
Contingency Reserve $100.0M
[#25] One-time contingency / emergency reserve fund set aside for catastrophic containment failures and exposures.
Decommissioning Reserve $50.0M
[#28] One-time emergency decommissioning / purge / remediation contingency.
Facilities $20.0M
[#24] Major install/overhaul of personnel shafts, elevators and heavy transport infrastructure (one-time).
Software And Systems Development $15.0M
[#12, #13, #20] One-time development costs for automated monitoring/detection systems, automated ejection/termination systems, and initial cybersecurity hardening / system integration.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.0M
[#16, #17] Initial archival/recreation tooling and research lab buildout / instruments for anomalist/neuroscience teams (one-time).
Cover Setup $1.0M
[#22] One-time setup for front corporations, shell entities, initial covert PR and black-budget infrastructure.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $215.6M/yr
Staff Wages $89.0M/yr
[#7, #8, #17, #18, #12, #20] Salaries & benefits for medical staff, security personnel, research staff, IT/operations/payroll, monitoring team and cybersecurity personnel (annual).
Compute Refresh $40.0M/yr
[#4] Annual compute refresh/expansion cycle (3–5 year depreciation replacement costs, expressed as annualized % of compute capex).
Power And Energy $29.0M/yr
[#2, #10, #11] Electricity for continuous 5–50 MW operations, generator fuel/rotation and cooling energy for compute (annual).
Facilities Maintenance $25.5M/yr
[#1, #11, #24, #9] Deepwell structural maintenance/geotechnical stabilization, chiller/pump maintenance, shaft/elevator inspections and security hardware maintenance (annual).
Cover Story And Legal $11.2M/yr
[#22, #26, #27] Recurring cover/black-budget operations, retained counsel, crisis PR, litigation mitigation, and ethical/compliance boards (annual).
Research And Monitoring $9.5M/yr
[#12, #30, #17, #13] Recurring R&D and ops for monitoring/detection teams, telemetry/audit pipelines, research program operational costs, and simulated-agent maintenance (annual).
Data Storage $4.5M/yr
[#5, #16] Recurring storage/replication, archival storage and recreation pipeline storage costs (annual).
Supplies And Consumables $2.8M/yr
[#6, #7, #14, #15] VR pod spares/maintenance, medical supplies and blood, retrieval consumables (sedatives, immobilization), terminal disposal/biosafety consumables (annual).
Logistics And Transport $1.5M/yr
[#23] Expedited supply lines, hardware spares logistics, shipping to deep facility and cover/customs handling (annual).
Content Generation $1.5M/yr
[#21, #29] Writers, procedural content systems, simulated subsidies and in‑simulation maintenance to preserve stability and continuity (annual).
Training And Readiness $1.0M/yr
[#19] Ongoing training, red-team exercises, and personnel readiness for simulation controllers and embedded agents (annual).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $215.6M/yr
94.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with routine maintenance, staffing, and scheduled refreshes; no major incidents.
routine_operations scheduled_compute_refresh minor_infrastructure_work
🚨 Minor Incident $220.6M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized deviance or hardware failure requiring emergency response, targeted data recovery, additional legal/PR activity and repairs.
localized_sim_deviance hardware_failure small_geological_event
🚨 Major Breach $415.6M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
Widespread simulation deviance, major hardware destruction or deepwell collapse requiring large-scale emergency response, data sanitization and partial decommissioning.
widespread_sim_deviance deepwell_cavern_collapse mass_exposure_or_leak
👥 Personnel 710 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 200 Front-line security, rapid response teams and rotations (mapped to #8 salaries).
IT / Data Center Engineers / Sysadmins 300 Compute ops, storage, networking, and on-site datacenter technicians (mapped to #18 payroll and #3/#5 operations).
Research Scientist 80 Anomalists, neuroscientists and simulation researchers (mapped to #17 research staff).
Engineer / Maintenance 50 Deepwell/geotechnical, mechanical, elevator and cooling engineers (mapped to #1, #11, #24 maintenance staffing).
Medical Officer 20 On-site doctors, anesthesiologists and technicians for stasis oversight (mapped to #7).
Administrative Staff 30 HR, site management, scheduling and administrative support (mapped to #18 payroll).
Content Generation / Simulation Ops 15 Writers, procedural content creators and continuity staff (mapped to #21 and #29).
Cybersecurity / Incident Response 10 Network defense, secure comms and incident responders (mapped to #20 and #12).
Legal / PR / Ethics Staff 5 Legal retainers, crisis PR personnel and ethics/compliance officers (mapped to #26 and #27).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are grounded in the analyst's numerical ranges and canonical operational assumptions but large uncertainties remain (unknown object class, extreme depth engineering unknowns, and simulation fidelity choices). This yields moderate confidence.
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