Scaleway & OpenClaw: The agility of the Mac mini M4 in service of your AI agents

The AI ecosystem is evolving at a speed that physical hardware often struggles to match. With the arrival of projects like OpenClaw, demand for local and high-performance execution environments is exploding.

But how can you test these new agents without compromising your own personal data?

At Scaleway, we are rising up to the challenge by transforming the Mac mini M4 into a pure cloud resource, available in just a few clicks. It is the ideal environment to isolate your experiments in a sandbox, rather than on your primary machine.

Why choose the Mac mini M4 for your agents?

The move to the M4 is a game-changer for local AI inference. Thanks to its 38 TOPS Neural Engine, it allows you to handle your agents' requests with a latency of less than a few milliseconds.

• Practical Isolation: Using a dedicated Mac mini allows you to confine your experimental tools. It is an effective barrier to protect your personal information as long as these new tools have not yet reached full maturity in terms of reliability.
• Immediate Flexibility: Rent your computing power by the hour, validate your PoC, and turn off the server. You only pay for what is necessary. This drastically reduces your costs.
• Simplified Access: You can take control of your Mac mini very easily via an ergonomic console to configure your environment.

Tutorial: How to access the Remote Desktop of my Mac mini

Performance, Security, and Sovereignty with Scaleway Generative APIs

By deploying OpenClaw on Apple Silicon, you can:

• Use the computing power available on your Mac mini to execute small-scale LLM models locally.
• Use Generative APIs to benefit from large-scale LLMs, providing the performance and reliability of the best models on the market, while paying only for usage (per millions of tokens consumed).

In both cases, you maintain control over your data: by default, no data is kept on Generative APIs and all processing is carried out in Europe on our own infrastructure.

Follow our tutorial to integrate OpenClaw with Generative APIs in a few minutes, and combine Apple performance with Scaleway's cloud rigor:

Tutorial: Integrating OpenClaw with Generative APIs

OpenClaw in action on Apple Silicon

Below is an OpenClaw agent configured and operational on a Scaleway Mac mini M4. The execution is fluid and takes full advantage of local hardware acceleration for a frictionless experience, while remaining perfectly isolated from your critical infrastructure.

Move from experimentation to production

Although OpenClaw is still in the development phase (be sure to properly configure your bots' permissions!), coupling it with the power of the M4 is the most agile method for exploring the future of AI agents.

Don't let hardware limit your innovation: Launch your Mac mini M4 instance now

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