OpenAI Now Lets Enterprises Choose Where to Host Their Data

Why It Matters

The expanded residency options remove a key legal barrier, enabling global enterprises to adopt ChatGPT at scale while meeting GDPR and other local data‑protection rules, thereby accelerating AI deployment across regulated industries.

Summary

OpenAI has broadened its data residency options for ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu, and approved API customers, now allowing data at rest to be stored and processed in ten regions—including the EU, UK, US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. The move addresses a major compliance hurdle for multinational firms by letting them keep conversational logs, uploaded files, custom GPTs, and image‑generation artifacts within jurisdictions that match their regulatory requirements. While data residency applies only to data at rest, inference still runs in the United States, and connectors may impose separate residency constraints. OpenAI says it will continue adding more regions over time.