diff --git a/backend/loader.py b/backend/loader.py
index 606a33e6..4d60ceb8 100644
--- a/backend/loader.py
+++ b/backend/loader.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def load_huggingface_component(guess, component_name, lib_name, cls_name, repo_p
             from transformers import CLIPTextConfig, CLIPTextModel
             config = CLIPTextConfig.from_pretrained(config_path)
 
-            to_args = dict(device=memory_management.text_encoder_device(), dtype=memory_management.text_encoder_dtype())
+            to_args = dict(device=memory_management.cpu, dtype=memory_management.text_encoder_dtype())
 
             with modeling_utils.no_init_weights():
                 with using_forge_operations(**to_args, manual_cast_enabled=True):