```py
pipe.upcast_vae()
```  
As an alternative, you can also use a [16-bit VAE](https://huggingface.co/madebyollin/sdxl-vae-fp16-fix) created by community member [`@madebyollin`](https://huggingface.co/madebyollin) that does not need to be upcasted to `float32`.