diff --git a/.github/ci-scripts/job_runner.py b/.github/ci-scripts/job_runner.py
index b3605fbdd6..317b1f406b 100644
--- a/.github/ci-scripts/job_runner.py
+++ b/.github/ci-scripts/job_runner.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def submit_job(
     env_vars: str,
     enable_ray_tracing: bool,
 ):
-    datadir = Path(__file__).parents[2] / "benchmarking" / "tpcds" / "data"
+    datadir = Path(__file__).parents[2] / "benchmarking" / "tpcds" / "gendata"
     datadir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     scale_factor = 0.01
     db = duckdb.connect(database=datadir / "tpcds.db")