diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index 7c482a9..0af5b3f 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -97,5 +97,7 @@
 # Assume a 10k IOPS device (average NVMe) and 64GiB of RAM for test scheduling.
 test --local_resources=iops=10000 --local_resources=ram=64000
 
+common --experimental_downloader_config=build/bazel/bazel_downloader.cfg
+
 # Load custom per-user settings.
 try-import %workspace%/.bazelrc.user