# Blizzard used 3,924 virtual machines for World of Warcraft: Forever launch

_Published Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 9:05 AM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Blizzard used 3,924 virtual machines with 70,480 CPU cores and 251,136 GB of memory to support the launch of World of Warcraft: Forever, Tom's Hardware reported. Players and media praised it as one of the company's smoothest launches.

The deployment used 6% fewer CPU cores and 2.2X more memory than the infrastructure Blizzard described in 2009, which comprised 13,250 server blades across 10 data centers. Blizzard did not specify the exact hardware running Forever; the report's server configurations and cost estimates are hypothetical.

## Sources

- [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/wow-forever-launch-used-70-480-cpu-cores-and-251-terabytes-of-ram-3-924-virtual-machines-powered-one-of-world-of-warcrafts-smoothest-launches-ever)

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Published: 2026-11-08T14:05:08.758Z
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Retrieved: 2026-11-08T16:15:15.541Z
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