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COMPEL Glossary / data-residency-ai
Data residency (AI)
The requirement that training data, retrieval data, and inference itself occur within a specified jurisdiction.
What this means in practice
Applies both to personal data under GDPR/UK GDPR and to sector-specific rules (financial services, healthcare). Materialises as deployment-topology constraints: model choice, cloud region, and cross-border data-flow architecture.
Synonyms
AI data residency , inference residency
See also
- Multi-tenant AI — A design pattern that serves multiple tenants from a shared AI system with isolation at the retrieval (namespace), rate-limit, policy, cost-attribution, and evaluation layers.
- Serving pattern — The architectural shape of the inference path — managed API, cloud-platform hosted, self-hosted online, self-hosted batch, or edge.