Location Restrictions for AI Data Residency.

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If you want to set up location restrictions for AI data residency, this can involve various approaches based on the cloud provider you're using and the specific AI services involved. These restrictions are typically implemented to comply with data sovereignty laws or to reduce latency for clients accessing the AI services.

In Google Cloud Platform (GCP), for instance, you can specify the location where AI services like Vertex AI are deployed to enforce data residency requirements. This includes specifying the region for resources such as datasets, model training, endpoints, and others used by the AI services.

Here’s a Pulumi program written in Python that sets up location restrictions for AI data residency in GCP. This program will create a Vertex AI Dataset and deploy a Notebook instance in a specified location, ensuring the data used by these services does not leave the region.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

# Set up configuration variables
# These should be adjusted based on the actual requirements and taken typically from pulumi config
project_id = 'your-project-id'
location = 'europe-west4'  # Specify the region to comply with data residency requirements.
dataset_display_name = 'european_data'

# Vertex AI Dataset creation with location restrictions.
ai_dataset = gcp.vertex.AiDataset("aiDataset",
    project=project_id,
    location=location,
    display_name=dataset_display_name)

# Cloud AI Platform Notebooks instance with location restrictions.
notebook_instance = gcp.notebooks.Instance("notebookInstance",
    project=project_id,
    location=location,
    machine_type='n1-standard-1',  # Modify as needed for the notebook requirements.
    vm_image=gcp.notebooks.InstanceVmImageArgs(
        project="deeplearning-platform-release",
        image_family="tf2-latest-cpu",  # Choose the appropriate image for your workload.
    ))

# Export the created resources URLs for easy access.
# These URLs can be used to access the AI dataset and notebook instance via GCP Console.
pulumi.export('ai_dataset_id', ai_dataset.name)
pulumi.export('notebook_instance_id', notebook_instance.name)
```

In this program:

1. We're importing the Pulumi GCP module, which contains all the necessary classes and functions to work with GCP resources.

2. We're defining some configuration variables such as `project_id`, `location`, and `dataset_display_name`, which are used to create the resources with the proper settings.

3. The `gcp.vertex.AiDataset` resource creates a new Vertex AI Dataset in the specified location, adhering to data residency requirements.

4. The `gcp.notebooks.Instance` resource creates a new AI Notebook instance in the specified location. You can choose different VM types and image families according to your workload needs. In this example, we've selected a machine type and a TensorFlow 2 image family for CPU workloads.

5. The `pulumi.export` statements at the end make it easy to retrieve the IDs of the created resources for access through the GCP Console.

Please replace the configuration variables with actual values that match your requirements. You can modify the machine type or image family used for the notebook instance based on your AI workload.

**Note:** Before running this program, ensure that you have authenticated your Pulumi CLI with GCP and set the correct project and region settings as needed.