From 29fb043bd6d4b0c01671cf84ea3e5ed71843ea05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Illviljan <14371165+Illviljan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 18:33:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update _creation_functions.py

---
 xarray/namedarray/_array_api/_creation_functions.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xarray/namedarray/_array_api/_creation_functions.py b/xarray/namedarray/_array_api/_creation_functions.py
index 68580c77bb8..72706a8331c 100644
--- a/xarray/namedarray/_array_api/_creation_functions.py
+++ b/xarray/namedarray/_array_api/_creation_functions.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def empty_like(
     device: _Device | None = None,
 ) -> NamedArray[_ShapeType, _DType]:
     xp = _get_data_namespace(x)
-    _data = xp.empty(x._data, dtype=dtype, device=device)
+    _data = xp.empty_like(x._data, dtype=dtype, device=device)
     return x._new(data=_data)