diff --git a/src/dataset/settings.py b/src/dataset/settings.py
index f524191..951e138 100644
--- a/src/dataset/settings.py
+++ b/src/dataset/settings.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # dataset/settings.py
 
 import os
+import torch
 from pathlib import Path
 
 ### FILE PATHS ###
@@ -13,9 +14,10 @@ ARD_DATASET_NAME = "StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset"
 ### EMBEDDINGS ###
 USE_OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS = False
 OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL = "text-embedding-ada-002"
-SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL = "sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-cos-v1"
 EMBEDDINGS_DIMS = 1536
 OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_RATE_LIMIT = 3500
+SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL = "sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-cos-v1"
+DEVICE = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
 
 ### PINECONE ###
 PINECONE_INDEX_NAME = "stampy-chat-embeddings-test"
diff --git a/src/dataset/update_dataset.py b/src/dataset/update_dataset.py
index 671a8d4..279b20a 100644
--- a/src/dataset/update_dataset.py
+++ b/src/dataset/update_dataset.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from .text_splitter import TokenSplitter
 from .sql_db_handler import SQLDB
 from .pinecone_db_handler import PineconeDB
 
-from .settings import USE_OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS, OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, EMBEDDINGS_DIMS, OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_RATE_LIMIT, ARD_DATASET_NAME, MAX_NUM_AUTHORS_IN_SIGNATURE
+from .settings import USE_OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS, OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, EMBEDDINGS_DIMS, OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_RATE_LIMIT, DEVICE, ARD_DATASET_NAME, MAX_NUM_AUTHORS_IN_SIGNATURE
 
 import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ class ARDUpdater:
             from langchain.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbeddings
             self.hf_embeddings = HuggingFaceEmbeddings(
                 model_name=SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL,
+                model_kwargs={'device': DEVICE},
+                encode_kwargs={'show_progress_bar': True}
             )
 
     def update(self, custom_sources: List[str] = ['all']):