diff --git a/.github/workflows/vm_full_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/vm_full_tests.yml
index 1e912a054384..e1e135b02018 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/vm_full_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/vm_full_tests.yml
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ jobs:
           concurrency_key: avm-full-tests-x86
       - name: "AVM Full Tests"
         working-directory: ./barretenberg/cpp/
-        timeout-minutes: 90
-        # limit our parallelism to half our cores
-        run: earthly-ci --no-output +vm-full-test --hardware_concurrency=64
+        timeout-minutes: 70
+        run: |
+          sudo shutdown -P 70 # hack until core part of the scripts
+          earthly-ci --no-output +vm-full-test --hardware_concurrency=64  # limit our parallelism to half our cores