Data residency is currently available in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. We plan to expand availability to additional regions over time.

With data residency, eligible API, ChatGPT Enterprise, and ChatGPT Edu customers can choose to have their customer content stored at rest in-region.

New ChatGPT workspaces can be set up with data residency, allowing customer content to be stored at rest in the selected region. This includes—content such as conversations, uploaded files, custom GPTs and image generation artifacts, and more⁠(opens in a new window).

Enterprise Customers that have been approved for advanced data controls ⁠(opens in a new window)can enable regional data residency by creating a new Project in the API Platform dashboard and selecting their preferred region. Requests made through these Projects are handled in-region—model requests and responses are not stored at rest on OpenAI’s servers.

Data residency builds on OpenAI’s robust data privacy, security, and compliance features, which support organizations partnering with OpenAI today. These features include: