- ChatGPT Enterprise/Edu and API Platform customers now have new data residency options
- It all started with a European sovereign option in February 2025
- Others also offer data residency options, including Gemini
OpenAI now offers new data residency options to enterprise customers on its ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu tiers, as well as those using the API platform.
The move comes as the AI tools platform continues to become increasingly popular among enterprise customers, with more than 1 million enterprise customers now signed up for OpenAI services.
From launch, 10 different locations can be selected, but the company promises to add more regions over time.
OpenAI gives business users data residency options
Eligible customers can choose from Europe, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia and United Arab Emirates.
OpenAI explained that Enterprise and Edu subscribers can store customer content – like conversations, uploaded files, custom GPTs, and image builds – in the region of their choice. For the API platform, users can create a new project from the dashboard and select their preferred region for data storage.
“Requests made through these projects are processed regionally – model requests and responses are not stored at rest on OpenAI’s servers,” the company added.
The ChatGPT maker also highlighted the use of AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS 1.2+ for data in transit, as well as certificates of compliance for GDPR, SOC 2 Type 2 and more.
OpenAI is already committed to helping its customers meet data residency and data sovereignty requirements. In February 2025, she launched her first residency option – Europe.
In October, the company then added data residency options for customers in the UK, US, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, India and the UAE. This latest change opens up residency options to “many global markets.”
Gemini Enterprise customers can also choose from multiple EU or US regions for ML processes, such as model training, prediction, and tuning. The UK is also home to stored data for those who need it.
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