diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0a75c610b8..8f6710ceeb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     'mosaicml-streaming>=0.8.1,<0.9',
     'torch>=2.4.0,<2.4.1',
     'datasets>=2.19,<2.20',
-    'fsspec==2023.6.0',  # newer version results in a bug in datasets that duplicates data
+    'fsspec==2024.9.0',  # newer version results in a bug in datasets that duplicates data
     'sentencepiece==0.2.0',
     'einops==0.8.0',
     'omegaconf>=2.2.3,<3',