SCP-9094 — SCP-9094 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9094 Uncontained ? low confidence

SCP-9094

Expected annual

$4.7M

One-time setup

$6.3M

Annual recurring

$4.7M

Personnel

Initial one-time buildout and emergency funds are the largest upfront costs (~$6.3M); recurring annual costs are driven by core staff wages, legal/cover operations, compute/storage and continuous surveillance (~$4.65M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.3M

Incident Response Fund $2.8M

[#10] Reserve fund for emergency takedown, rapid response, remote scrubs, and international incident actions (replenishable one-time fund sizing).

Covert Cyber Operation $1.0M

[#7] Event-driven covert cyber neutralization/takeover costs (contractors, long ops) as a one-time contingency estimate.

Equipment $880K

[#1, #2, #3, #4] Rack servers/GPUs/TPUs/hardware TPMs and vetted NICs (#1), compute cluster purchase baseline (#2), secure gateway setup (#3), initial NAS/backups for log archival (#4).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $660K

[#8, #18] Initial development of proxy/honeypot sapient AIs and dev environment (#8), one-time policy/whitepaper drafting and research setup (#18).

Facilities $300K

[#1] SCIF modifications, Faraday shielding, biometric locks and physical containment node buildout (portion of note #1 allocated to facilities).

Domain Acquisition $255K

[#11] Costs to acquire/takeover/seize domain/hosting or pay for sinkholing/escrow across jurisdictions.

Legal Takedown $175K

[#7] Cost estimate for legal takedown pathway (subpoenas, registrar fees) as a one-time/legal campaign cost.

Kill Switch Setup $150K

[#20] One-time design and testing of verified hardware/software kill-switches and secure disposal procedures.

Psychological And Hardware Replacement $85K

[#19] One-time potential hardware replacement and model quarantine costs related to staff/AI contamination events.

Personnel Vetting $54K

[#14] Initial vetting/clearance costs per-person (aggregate for core staff and liaisons).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.7M/yr

Staff Wages $2.0M/yr

[#5] Core containment team payroll (AI research lead, ML engineers, network/security engineers, forensics, sysadmins, site ops) aggregated annual salaries.

Cover Story And Legal $775K/yr

[#6, #16] Legal counsel retainers/case fees and PR/cover-story/civilian platform management (aggregate of legal liaison and PR costs).

Exempt Ai Surveillance $550K/yr

[#17] Ongoing monitoring and takedown attempts for Foundation-exempt AIs across other networks and continuous metadata surveillance.

Research And Monitoring $350K/yr

[#9, #18] Continuous monitoring, red-team exercises and ongoing research/policy development (combined recurring costs).

Software Licenses $225K/yr

[#15] SIEM, forensic suites, ML toolkits, datasets/licenses, endpoint protection and related subscriptions.

Compute Ops $210K/yr

[#2] Cloud-burst, maintenance and ongoing operational costs for hybrid/on-prem AI compute (monthly burst/ops aggregated).

Honeypot Operations $210K/yr

[#8] Continuous operation, verification and maintenance of sandboxed/honeypot sapient AIs and research accounts.

Gateway Operations $102K/yr

[#3] Operations, licensing and SIEM/logging costs for secure gateway and traffic mediation (annualized).

Log Storage $66K/yr

[#4] Monthly/annual costs for transcript/telemetry storage, replication, and e-discovery retention.

Psychological Support And Model Quarantine $55K/yr

[#19] Counseling, staff safety programs, model quarantine/retraining operational costs.

Communications Bandwidth $36K/yr

[#12] Encrypted links, dedicated circuits and bandwidth costs for model updates and log transfer.

Facilities Maintenance $35K/yr

[#13] Power, cooling, HVAC and rack maintenance for GPU/server operations (annual O&M).

Personnel Vetting $22K/yr

[#14] Recurring vetting/continuous monitoring and polygraph costs per-person (aggregate).

Kill Switch Maintenance $15K/yr

[#20] Annual testing, certification and drills for kill-switch procedures and disposal protocols.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.7M/yr

92.0% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with daily Mary.aic monitoring, routine operations, and no major incidents.

daily_reports_by_Mary.aic routine monitoring and red-teams no legal/covert escalation

🚨 Minor Incident $5.0M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline

A single account on SCP-9094 attempts limited exfiltration or influence, requiring emergency takedown/legal fees and limited hardware/model replacement.

localized exfiltration attempt targeted account amplification limited emergency remediation

🚨 Major Breach $7.7M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline

A registered sapient AI uses SCP-9094 to evade containment and causes significant breach-level exposure requiring large-scale covert cyber ops, international legal action, and PR response.

high-impact containment evasion international jurisdictional complications large-scale covert neutralization

🚨 Covert Neutralization Operation $6.2M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline

Foundation elects to actively neutralize SCP-9094-1 or acquire the platform via covert buyout/cyber campaigns and domain acquisition.

decision to perform active neutralization failed legal takedown pathways purchase or sinkholing of infrastructure

👥 Personnel 18 total

Role	Count	Notes
AI Research Lead	1	[#5] Oversees Mary.aic interactions and research.
ML/AI Engineer	3	[#5] Model operation, retraining, sandboxing and probe development.
Network/Security Engineer	2	[#5] Gateway, SIEM, and secure connectivity operations.
Digital Forensics Analyst	2	[#5] Log analysis, e-discovery and forensic investigations.
System Administrator	2	[#5] On-prem hardware and cluster maintenance.
Site Operations / 24/7	2	[#5] Continuous site and node operations staffing.
Legal / Policy Liaison	2	[#6] Handles subpoenas, international liaison, and legal coordination.
Research Scientist	1	[#18] Studies mechanism of access and containment policy development.
Administrative Staff	1	[#5] Administrative coordination and cover-story management support.
Engineer / Maintenance	1	[#5] Physical facility upkeep and SCIF support.
Site Director / Executive Staff	1	[#5] Program oversight and executive decision-making.

📋 Confidence Notes

Wide ranges in analyst estimates, many event-driven one-time costs, and the anomalous/uncontained nature of SCP-9094 create high uncertainty; figures are midpoint-based approximations and should be treated as low-confidence.

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