diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a681b299fe..6b673d7a63 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ redis==3.3.5
 pymongo[tls,srv]==3.8.0
 numpy==1.16.3
 scipy==1.2.1
-tensorflow-cpu==1.15.0
+tensorflow-cpu==2.7.2
 absl-py>=0.8.0
 # setuptools comes from tensorboard requirement:
 # https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard/blob/1.14/tensorboard/pip_package/setup.py#L33
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d227020c47..a8ef07718c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     "pymongo[tls,srv]~=3.8",
     "numpy~=1.16",
     "scipy~=1.2",
-    "tensorflow-cpu~=1.15.0",
+    "tensorflow-cpu>=1.15,<2.8",
     # absl is a tensorflow dependency, but produces double logging before 0.8
     # should be removed once tensorflow requires absl > 0.8 on its own
     "absl-py>=0.8.0",