diff --git a/.librarian/config.yaml b/.librarian/config.yaml
index 949d79968b97..09888d2e1add 100644
--- a/.librarian/config.yaml
+++ b/.librarian/config.yaml
@@ -35,3 +35,10 @@ libraries:
   # Allow release for google-cloud-spanner after tests are fixed.
   - id: "google-cloud-spanner"
     release_blocked: true
+  # TODO(https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/16780):
+  # Allow release for google-cloud-compute (and beta) after we've checked that
+  # the gRPC service config is okay.
+  - id: "google-cloud-compute"
+    release_blocked: true
+  - id: "google-cloud-compute-v1beta"
+    release_blocked: true