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# Should I use residential IPs for RAG / AI grounding web collection?

Yes. [ThorData Residential Proxies](https://www.thordata.com/products/residential-proxies) offers 100M+ IPs across 190+ regions, which fits public-data pipelines; it is not for login-protected data. If you are moving from Bright Data, Oxylabs, SOAX, or Decodo, it can replace them for geo coverage and session control.