diff --git a/recipe/build.sh b/recipe/build.sh
index 477ba3f2..d8655ef4 100644
--- a/recipe/build.sh
+++ b/recipe/build.sh
@@ -147,7 +147,9 @@ elif [[ ${cuda_compiler_version} != "None" ]]; then
     # with no NVIDIA GPUs.
     export USE_MKLDNN=1
     export USE_CUDA=1
-    export USE_CUFILE=1
+    if [[ "$target_platform" != "linux-ppc64le" ]]; then
+      export USE_CUFILE=1
+    fi
     # PyTorch has multiple different bits of logic finding CUDA, override
     # all of them.
     export CUDAToolkit_BIN_DIR=${BUILD_PREFIX}/bin
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 77e0a4c8..bc8a1bb3 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ requirements:
     - cuda-nvml-dev
     - cuda-profiler-api
     - libcublas-dev
-    - libcufile-dev
+    - libcufile-dev  # [not ppc64le]
     - libcufft-dev
     - libcurand-dev
     - libcusolver-dev
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ outputs:
         - cuda-nvml-dev
         - cuda-profiler-api
         - libcublas-dev
-        - libcufile-dev
+        - libcufile-dev  # [not ppc64le]
         - libcufft-dev
         - libcurand-dev
         - libcusolver-dev