diff --git a/exon/exon-core/Cargo.toml b/exon/exon-core/Cargo.toml
index a5007bcb..03a938c8 100644
--- a/exon/exon-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/exon/exon-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ noodles = { workspace = true, features = [
   "gtf",
 ] }
 num_cpus = "1.16.0"
-object_store = { workspace = true, features = ["aws"] }
+object_store = { workspace = true, features = ["aws", "gcp"] }
 pin-project = { version = "1.1.5", optional = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 tokio-util = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/exon/exon-core/src/runtime_env/exon_runtime_env_ext.rs b/exon/exon-core/src/runtime_env/exon_runtime_env_ext.rs
index 15ca145b..d4caf35d 100644
--- a/exon/exon-core/src/runtime_env/exon_runtime_env_ext.rs
+++ b/exon/exon-core/src/runtime_env/exon_runtime_env_ext.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use datafusion::{error::DataFusionError, execution::runtime_env::RuntimeEnv};
+use object_store::gcp::GoogleCloudStorageBuilder;
 use object_store::ObjectStore;
 
 use exon_io::build_s3_object_store;
@@ -70,8 +71,6 @@ impl ExonRuntimeEnvExt for Arc<RuntimeEnv> {
         match url.scheme() {
             "s3" => self.register_s3_object_store(url).await,
             "gs" => {
-                use object_store::gcp::GoogleCloudStorageBuilder;
-
                 // Check that the GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT env var is set
                 if std::env::var("GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT").is_err() {
                     return Err(DataFusionError::Execution(