UK SaaS developer stuck waiting on OpenAI's EU data residency approval for API
Suitable-Season-4847 · reddit · 2026-10-06
A UK SaaS developer posted on Reddit asking whether anyone has successfully obtained EU data residency and approvals for abuse-monitoring controls (Modified Abuse Monitoring, Zero Data Retention) on an OpenAI API account.
Their platform serves public-sector clients under contracts requiring EU-only data processing. The ChatGPT-API integration works, but after submitting a request to OpenAI's sales team, they've heard nothing back and describe the process as haphazard. They're looking for timelines and pitfalls from anyone who has been through it.
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