OpenClaw (formerly called Moltbot and/or Clawdbot) is blowing up right now. People are waking up to agents that coded overnight, scheduled their own tasks, and — in at least one viral case — called someone on the phone using a number that it set up by itself. Then, there’s also Moltbook , the "Reddit for AI," where autonomous scripts are currently forming their own religions and digital economies. It looks like magic. It looks like sentience. It's not. It's a loop, a queue, and a timer. But here's the thing: That loop needs to actually keep running for any of this to work. And right now, most people are running OpenClaw on their laptops. Which means that the moment they close the lid, their "autonomous agent" takes a nap. This blog post walks you through how to move OpenClaw off your local machine and onto an always-on cloud virtual machine (VM) — with a single Terraform apply — so your agent can actually do the thing it was designed to do: Stay alive. What is OpenClaw?…