Blizzard says WoW: Forever runs on 70,480 CPU cores
The official World of Warcraft account shared the server specifications for WoW: Forever, and PC Gamer estimates the cores alone would cost around $1.2 million.
The official World of Warcraft X account has revealed the server infrastructure behind WoW: Forever, stating that the project runs on about 3,924 virtual machines, 251,136 GB of memory and 70,480 CPU cores, according to PC Gamer.
PC Gamer estimates that the CPU cores alone would cost around $1.2 million. The figures cover hardware capacity only; the post did not give a total system cost.
The numbers place the WoW: Forever setup alongside the large hardware deployments that have become a talking point in the games and AI industries. Before this article, PC Gamer reported on a $60 million AI rack cluster with about 1.4 petabytes of memory and around 4,200 CPUs.
According to the article, Microsoft spends multiple dozen billions of dollars in AI investment each year. Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, is referenced in the article's joke about the scale of the figures.
Quick answers
What are the server specs for WoW: Forever?
The official World of Warcraft X account said WoW: Forever runs on about 3,924 virtual machines, 251,136 GB of memory and 70,480 CPU cores.
How much would the WoW: Forever CPU cores cost?
PC Gamer estimates the CPU cores alone would cost around $1.2 million.