3. Reduced storage requirements because if a component, such as the SDXL [VAE](https://hf.co/madebyollin/sdxl-vae-fp16-fix), is shared across multiple models, you only need to download and store a single copy of it instead of downloading and storing it multiple times. For 10 SDXL models, this can save ~3.5GB of storage. The storage savings is even greater for newer models like PixArt Sigma, where the [text encoder](https://hf.co/PixArt-alpha/PixArt-Sigma-XL-2-1024-MS/tree/main/text_encoder) alone is ~19GB!