[eksu]

Not latencies, think data privacy / keeping queries and data from leaving sovereign borders. This way, if there is some local instance / everything is local than the datacenter and service are subject to local laws and regulations (and alternatively you're not subject to foriegn the laws and regulations (and agencies).

[sReinwald]

That's not quite correct. The "sovereignty" pitch here is largely illusory when dealing with a US-based company like OpenAI.

The US CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) explicitly gives US authorities the power to compel US-based companies to provide data stored on servers, regardless of where those servers are physically located. This effectively undermines any meaningful data sovereignty claims.

Consider the actual arrangement being proposed:

    - OpenAI (US company) maintains control of the infrastructure
    - OpenAI controls the models and their development
    - OpenAI maintains the security protocols and access rights
    - The data merely sits physically within national borders

This isn't sovereignty - it's a limited hosting arrangement that remains fully under US legal jurisdiction. US intelligence agencies can still access this data through legal mechanisms that bypass the host country's laws entirely.

[rany_]

It would also allow OpenAI to operate in countries that have state subsidized electricity and low wages.

[gerash]

locality is good for resilience and latency but for privacy? how does it work?

How can one audit that the bytes going from a DC in country A to a DC in the US is not the user queries but some telemetry data for example? Presumably you don't get to look at the unencrypted packets