diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/google-cloud-cpp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/google-cloud-cpp/default.nix
index 7eb69d075ca..b2d8856bfea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/google-cloud-cpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/google-cloud-cpp/default.nix
@@ -58,5 +58,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     homepage = "https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp";
     description = "C++ Idiomatic Clients for Google Cloud Platform services";
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ andir flokli ];
+    broken = true; # Broken on Hydra since 2020-05-19
   };
 }