Project initialization failure due to undefined variable in hardhat.config

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Project initialization fails with

Hardhat project 'test-project' was not able to initialize correctly: structuredClone is not defined

structuredClone was added in node 17.0.0 and the hardhat-vscode is probably using node version 16 hence the error.

Is there a way to change node version that hardhat-vscode uses?