[Python] Polars is killing the kernel on import

I am running the following code on JupyterLab, with no other notebooks open:

!pip3 install polars --upgrade
import polars as pl


The first line upgrades me to polars 1.18.0 with no issues, but then the program hangs for 3-5 seconds before I get an error message saying that the kernel has died. What would be causing polars to use to much memory on import?

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