With its Tech Valley, Aix looks towards the stars. The term had been creeping into Joissains’s majority interventions for some time. At the beginning of 2025, Jean-François Dubost, then deputy delegate for the economy and now president of the association of companies in the Milles business park, outlined it in a municipal council. The numbers were not the same – they were talking about 22 hectares of development compared to 15 today – but the biggest was on the table.
A little over a year later, on April 29, 2026, the foundations – or rather, the mindset – would be solid enough for the City to officially present the project to investors, SMEs, and media. On one side, a Tech Valley (15 hectares) hosting companies, research labs, civilian and military aviation training centers: drones, equipment manufacturers, or eVTOL, lightweight electric aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically – possibly the taxis of the 21st century. All powered by 40,000 m² of office and facility floor space, accompanied by parking, a restaurant, a mobile data center, and an HPC supercomputer simulator (Calculation…
