PocketClawvol. 1 · 2026

Data residency

Regulatory or contractual requirement that data not leave a defined geographic or organisational boundary.

Data residency rules apply to many EU, healthcare and finance deployments. For self-hosted AI, this typically means local LLMs and EU-based VPS providers. Hetzner (Germany/Finland) and Cloudflare (with regional restrictions) are common compliant choices.

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