We are also only using it because of GDPR requirements of not transferring data outside of the EU. The slowdown is huge, preventing any chat use-case where user

We are also only using it because of GDPR requirements of not transferring data outside of the EU. The slowdown is huge, preventing any chat use-case where users will get bored waiting for a 10 second response to trickle through. That OpenAI themselves aren't spinning up a data center in the EU is beyond strange for me. The only thing I can imagine is that if this is stopped by some legal provision as part of Microsoft investing, but it has clearly not worked well for OpenAI which now has to deal with Microsoft's shitty delivery of a subpar OpenAI-branded service for EU customers. We're currently using the swedish region btw, where model updates have been quite fast (weeks after official launch). Still, the slow response times makes them non-viable anyways...