The landscape is composed of layers. As a spatial and material document, it is marked by capitalist exploitation and episodes of ecological violence. The experimental video *Swallowed Matter* links a disappearing reservoir in Spain with the growing mechanisms of economic exploitation, focusing on data centers. Without showing any data centers, the video connects this almost invisible, water- and energy-intensive infrastructure with the remains of a dried-up reservoir. Starting from its original function as a drinking water reserve and space for energy production, the work interprets this place as a "feeding ground" for artificial intelligence and explores how technological progress is drastically inscribed on the landscape. The work conceives of artificial intelligence as a body of water and observes this reservoir as a ruin in which future and past collide.