diff --git a/qhub/initialize.py b/qhub/initialize.py
index c213e3808..98ba07507 100644
--- a/qhub/initialize.py
+++ b/qhub/initialize.py
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@
             "ipywidgets",
             f"qhub-dask =={qhub_dask_version}",
             "python-graphviz",
+            "pyarrow",
+            "s3fs",
+            "gcsfs",
             "numpy",
             "numba",
             "pandas",