diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/dynamic-rendering-utils.ts b/packages/next/src/server/dynamic-rendering-utils.ts
index abc5e7ae92a7752c9124896121450fb1a601b57b..f5b086cdeabecf1828d49a7812db93b76efce7bc 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/dynamic-rendering-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/dynamic-rendering-utils.ts
@@ -91,6 +91,17 @@ export function makeDynamicHangingPromise<T>(
   )
 }
 
+export function makeUntrackedHangingPromise<T>(
+  signal: AbortSignal,
+  route: string,
+  expression: string
+): Promise<T> {
+  return makeHangingPromiseWithError(
+    signal,
+    new HangingPromiseRejectionError(route, expression)
+  )
+}
+
 /**
  * Constructs a promise that never resolves, standing in for *runtime* data:
  * data that hangs during a static prerender but is available during a runtime
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/use-cache/use-cache-wrapper.ts b/packages/next/src/server/use-cache/use-cache-wrapper.ts
index 71935aab3d6e8272f90231e9153e5cc4caa2c7b1..7ee8be8c3babac0f50277f8ce790ab205566740e 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/use-cache/use-cache-wrapper.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/use-cache/use-cache-wrapper.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import {
   makeDynamicHangingPromise,
   makeRuntimeHangingPromise,
   makeStageHangingPromise,
+  makeUntrackedHangingPromise,
   RENDER_STAGES_BY_DATA_KIND,
 } from '../dynamic-rendering-utils'
 
@@ -1283,7 +1284,7 @@ async function generateCacheEntryImpl(
 
   switch (outerWorkUnitStore.type) {
     case 'prerender-runtime':
-    case 'prerender':
+    case 'prerender': {
       const timeoutAbortController = new AbortController()
       const timer = setTimeout(
         () => {
@@ -1299,7 +1300,6 @@ async function generateCacheEntryImpl(
       const abortSignal = dynamicAccessAbortSignal
         ? AbortSignal.any([
             dynamicAccessAbortSignal,
-            outerWorkUnitStore.renderSignal,
             timeoutAbortController.signal,
           ])
         : timeoutAbortController.signal
@@ -1357,6 +1357,7 @@ async function generateCacheEntryImpl(
         stream = prelude
       }
       break
+    }
     case 'request':
       // TODO: We should just check if the render is abandonable. This is
       // relevant in restart-on-cache-miss in general, so when we implement that
@@ -1640,6 +1641,51 @@ export async function cache(
     )
   }
 
+  const workUnitStore = workUnitAsyncStorage.getStore()
+  if (workUnitStore === undefined) {
+    throw new InvariantError(
+      '"use cache" cannot be used outside of App Router. Expected a WorkUnitStore.'
+    )
+  }
+
+  // In a prerender, tasky IO may result in cache reads that start
+  // after the prerender has already been aborted:
+  //
+  //   await setTimeout(100)  // we can't abort this uncached IO...
+  //   await cachedData()     // ...so we'll still get here even though the prerender aborted
+  //
+  // The prerender is over, so we should just return an erroring promise.
+  // (NOTE: we also shouldn't fill this cache, because it's behind uncached IO,
+  // so semantically it is not part of the prerender)
+  switch (workUnitStore.type) {
+    case 'prerender':
+    case 'prerender-runtime': {
+      if (workUnitStore.renderSignal.aborted) {
+        // We don't know if the cache itself is dynamic or runtime data,
+        // but the prerender is over, so it doesn't need to participate
+        // in runtime data tracking at all.
+        return makeUntrackedHangingPromise<never>(
+          workUnitStore.renderSignal,
+          workStore.route,
+          '"use cache" called after prerender ended'
+        )
+      }
+      break
+    }
+    case 'prerender-ppr':
+    case 'prerender-legacy':
+    case 'prerender-client':
+    case 'validation-client':
+    case 'request':
+    case 'cache':
+    case 'private-cache':
+    case 'unstable-cache':
+    case 'generate-static-params':
+      break
+    default:
+      workUnitStore satisfies never
+  }
+
   // Probe re-executions (the dev-server's hang-detection worker) short-circuit
   // further down before any handler is consulted, so we skip handler selection
   // entirely and the worker can boot without registering handlers at all.
@@ -1705,13 +1751,6 @@ export async function cache(
     return error
   }
 
-  const workUnitStore = workUnitAsyncStorage.getStore()
-  if (workUnitStore === undefined) {
-    throw new InvariantError(
-      '"use cache" cannot be used outside of App Router. Expected a WorkUnitStore.'
-    )
-  }
-
   const outerOwnerStack =
     process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
       ? captureOuterOwnerStack(workUnitStore)