GCP Data Privacy

As of now GCP LLMs (text-bison, chat-bison etc.) are located in US Central, as per - https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/model-reference/overview#available_regions.

If a client is located in India, and they want to use text-bison for developing a Question-Answer system, and they DO NOT want any enterprise data (customers, products etc.) to be passed on to outside of India, due to privacy & other reasons, how can they develop such a system?

I understand that, no training of LLM will happen using client’s data, without client’s consent, but some data (in the form of user queries, e.g. about a product) will have to be passed to US based LLM, to get response right? How will that be handled?

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I expect you must use vertex AI platform

Yes, Vertex AI will be used within GCP VPC of the tenant (client). Vertex AI will host the Adapter Network, that will have to interact with LLM (located in US Central) to get responses to user prompts.