Introducing data residency in Europe

Update on January 16, 2026

We’ve expanded our data residency offering with options for in-region GPU inference in the U.S. or Europe for eligible ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and ChatGPT for Healthcare customers. Learn more⁠(opens in a new window).

Update on November 25, 2025

We’ve expanded our at-rest data residency options globally. For details on availability across additional regions, see our latest update.

Update on October 27, 2025

In addition to Europe, we’ve expanded at-rest data residency to the UK, US, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, India, and the UAE—for eligible API customers and for new ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu workspaces.

We’re announcing data residency in Europe for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the API Platform. This helps organizations operating in Europe meet local data sovereignty requirements when using OpenAI products in their businesses and building new solutions with AI. Data residency builds on OpenAI’s existing enterprise-grade data privacy, security, and compliance features.

Data residency in Europe for API, ChatGPT Enterprise, and ChatGPT Edu

With data residency, API customers can now choose to process data in Europe for eligible endpoints, and new ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu customers can choose to have customer content stored at rest in Europe.

API Platform

Eligible customers can enable European data residency by creating a new Project⁠(opens in a new window) in the API Platform dashboard and selecting Europe as the region. API requests initiated through these Projects will be handled in-region by OpenAI with zero data retention, meaning model requests and responses are not stored at rest on our servers. As of now, European residency can only be configured for new Projects—existing Projects cannot be updated to have European data residency after creation.