diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1fcf4c3ca7d..e266c159f8f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools",
+requires = ["setuptools>=70.0.0",
             "wheel",
             "cython>=0.29.21",
             "numpy>=2.0.0",