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SCP-9914 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-9914
Expected annual
$3.2M
One-time setup
$3.5M
Annual recurring
$3.1M
Personnel
22
Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $3,455,000 driven by secure containment construction, specialized equipment, and contingency reserves; recurring annual costs are approximately $3,092,000 driven primarily by technical and security staff wages, hardware refresh, and ongoing monitoring/operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.5M
Facilities $1.1M
[#1, #5, #6, #25] Secure containment room/SCIF buildout (#1), CRAC/HVAC capital (#5 cap), electromagnetic shielding installation (#6), and site/infra setup (lease/land/fencing) (#25).
Catastrophic Contingency Reserve $1.0M
[#30] One-time contingency reserve for catastrophic/legal settlement/large-scale remediation (#30).
Equipment $675K
[#2, #3, #7, #8, #9, #17, #23, #27] Hardened compute cluster (#2), UPS/generator capital & install (#3), network isolation/data diode hardware (#7), monitoring/forensics appliances capital (#8 cap), secure media/tape backups capital (#9 cap), secure I/O tooling (#17), secure decommission appliances (#23), specialized sandbox/deterministic hardware (#27).
Incident Response Reserve $600K
[#20] One-time incident response reserve & emergency procurement fund (#20).
Personnel Onboarding And Clearance Setup $40K
[#14] One-time personnel background checks, clearance processing and specialized onboarding setup (#14 one-time).
Legal And Cover Story Startup $40K
[#21] One-time legal/compliance and cover-story startup costs (#21 one-time).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.1M/yr
Staff Wages $2.1M/yr
[#10, #11, #13, #14, #18, #29] Physical security staffing (#10), technical containment staff/AI engineers/sysadmins (#11), psychological/memetic mitigation staff (#13), ongoing hazard pay & vetting (#14 recurring), staffing portion of continuous logging/redaction operations (#18), and staff-rotation related wages (#29).
Research And Monitoring $280K/yr
[#12, #28] Research & containment science budget for experiments and reproducibility (#12), plus automated sample-analysis/content-moderation tooling (#28).
Hardware Refresh And Spares $120K/yr
[#16] Annualized hardware refresh, spare parts, and depreciation/reserve for GPUs/servers (#16).
Facilities Maintenance $110K/yr
[#4, #5, #25] Generator fuel and maintenance (#4), cooling/environmental maintenance (#5 recurring), and site lease/operations/utility costs (#25 recurring).
Cover Story And Legal $110K/yr
[#21, #26] Ongoing legal/compliance, PR/cover-story liaison (#21 recurring) and secure code custody/escrow/provenance arrangements (#26).
Insurance And Liability $60K/yr
[#22] Specialized insurance and liability coverage for cyber-physical incidents (#22).
Energy Costs $60K/yr
[#15] Electricity for continuous GPU compute and cooling (#15).
Security Testing And Audits $60K/yr
[#19] Penetration testing, red-team exercises and third-party audits (#19).
Information Control Operations $50K/yr
[#18] Continuous logging, redaction, and information-control tooling/staffing operations (#18 recurring tooling portion).
Long Term Custody $50K/yr
[#24] Long-term custody and archival costs for multi-decade retention and off-site copies (#24).
Monitoring And Forensics Ops $40K/yr
[#8] Licensing, maintenance, and operational costs for high-fidelity logging, host sensors, and forensic appliances (#8 recurring).
Training And Sops $40K/yr
[#29] Ongoing training exercises, SOP development, drills and staff rotation program costs (#29).
Supplies And Consumables $12K/yr
[#9] Secure media rotation, tape backups consumables and air-gapped archival consumables (#9 recurring).
Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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Code Escrow And Provenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.1M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with standard operations, monitoring, and scheduled maintenance.
no breach regular maintenance routine research
🚨 Minor Incident $3.3M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized incident requiring forensic investigation, temporary capacity replacement, and short-term overtime.
suspicious exfiltration attempts partial hardware failure insider social-engineering attempt
🚨 Major Breach $5.6M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Significant containment breach requiring emergency destruction, large-scale remediation, legal action, and external coordination.
successful exfiltration or propagation physical compromise of containment room major insider collusion
👥 Personnel 22 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 24/7 guards with two-person minimum per shift and supervisors (#10).
Research Scientist / ML Engineer 5 AI/ML containment specialists to maintain models and safe testing (#11).
Systems Administrator / SecOps 2 System administration, hardware maintenance, and secure platform ops (#11, #16).
Incident Lead / Containment Lead 1 Lead responsible for incident response and containment coordination (#11, #20).
Clinical Psychologist / Memetic Risk Officer 2 Psychological/memetic hazard mitigation and personnel screening (#13).
Engineer / Maintenance 2 Facility, generator, cooling and environmental maintenance (#3, #4, #5).
Administrative Staff 2 Legal liaison, clearance processing, HR, and cover-story coordination (#14, #21, #26).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, enabling a reasoned mid-range estimate; uncertainty remains due to wide ranges for capital/contingency items and unpredictable breach/propagation risk, so confidence is medium.
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