Introducing health data residency in Africa

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. 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. 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. New ChatGPT workspaces can be set up with data residency in Europe, allowing customer content to be stored at rest in the region. This includes users’ conversations with ChatGPT and custom GPTs in your Enterprise or Edu workspace, including user prompts, uploaded files, and content across text, vision, and image modalities. Data residency builds on OpenAI’s robust data privacy, security, and compliance features, which support hundreds of organizations partnering with OpenAI in Europe today—from start-ups and large enterprises to academic institutions—including Booking.com, BBVA, Zalando, Klarna, Oxford University, Estée Lauder Companies, Ipsos, Swiss Re, Scania, Spotify, and Santander.