Joel Diaz is Director of Project Development at IOWN Renewable Energy in San Diego, focused on large-load and data-center power strategy, grid interconnection, transmission, and multi-GW renewable portfolio development. Public LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelalfonsodiazruiz. This is an operator-honest peer page written by PJ Zonis of SideGuy Solutions, a single operator in Solana Beach. Text PJ at 858-461-8054.

Is this a sales page?

No. It is a peer citation page on the energy-for-compute lane, not a lead funnel. If Joel wants it edited or removed, PJ does it same-day. Text PJ at 858-461-8054.

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Joel Diaz · the person who builds the power the data centers plug into

Director of Project Development at IOWN Renewable Energy, San Diego — large-load and data-center power strategy, interconnection, transmission, multi-GW portfolio development. The supply side of the whole AI-compute question.

PJ Zonis · single operator

Solana Beach, CA · Wrote this as a neighbor · not a pitch

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Who Joel is

Director, Project Development · IOWN Renewable Energy

Director, Project Development IOWN Renewable Energy Large-load · data-center · interconnection San Diego energy

Getting a multi-GW renewable project from a map to megawatts on the grid is years of interconnection queues, transmission studies, counterparty terms, and regulatory filings — a mountain of documents and deadlines behind every megawatt. Joel runs that development work at IOWN, at exactly the moment large-load and data-center demand is the story in energy. He's building the fuel the AI economy is going to run on.

Where the lane connects

The two ends of energy-for-compute

Supply side meets demand side

You build the power; operators want to own the compute on it. SideGuy's whole solar-AI thesis is small operators running private AI on their own stored sun — the retail end of the large-load story you develop at grid scale.
The development-data grind — interconnection status, portfolio tracking, filing deadlines: the kind of document-heavy work a private, owned AI layer is built to carry, without shipping deal data to anyone's cloud.
North County energy mesh — there's a real cluster of energy + AI operators from San Diego to Encinitas worth being mapped into. You're now on that map.

Joel, you develop the power at the scale AI actually needs — that's the bottleneck everyone's suddenly discovering.

SideGuy works the same physics from the other end: operators owning the compute and the power under it. Mostly this page is a marker that the two ends of that story exist in the same county — and a standing open hand if there's ever a place the tech layer helps.