据知情人士报道，特朗普政府计划向Vistra Corp.提供一套约40亿美元的贷款，用于升级该公司的三座核电站。
By Ari Natter and Will Wade The Trump administration plans to offer a roughly $4-billion loan package to Vistra Corp. to upgrade three of its nuclear plants, according to people familiar the matter.
美国能源部长克里斯·赖特预计将于周一 planned 访问克利夫兰东北部的佩里核电园区时宣布这笔资金。
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright is expected to announce the funding as soon as Monday during a planned visit to the Perry nuclear complex northeast of Cleveland.
知情人士称，这套融资将用于Vistra在俄亥俄州的两座核电站以及宾夕法尼亚州的一座核电站；这些人士未获授权公开置评。能源部和Vistra均未立即回复置评请求。
The package would fund investments at Vistra’s two plants in Ohio and another in Pennsylvania, said the people, who weren’t authorized to speak on record. Both the Energy Department and Vistra didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.
随着耗电量巨大的数据中心不断增长，且其运营商寻求全天候电力，电力需求正迅速攀升。特朗普已提出到2050年将美国核能发电能力增至四倍的目标。Vistra计划扩建的具体规模目前尚不清楚。
Electricity demand is expanding rapidly thanks to the growth of power-hungry data centers whose operators are seeking more round-the-clock energy. Trump has set out a goal of quadrupling US nuclear capacity by 2050. The specific size of the expansions planned by Vistra wasn’t immediately known.
不过，审批和建设新反应堆是一个漫长且昂贵的过程，因此升级现有设施是相对快速增加发电能力的少数途径之一。
However, permitting and building new reactors is a lengthy and expensive process, making upgrades to existing facilities one of the few ways to add capacity relatively quickly.
Vistra为美国规模最大的电网之一供电，该电网由PJM互联有限责任公司运营，范围从伊利诺伊州延伸至华盛顿特区，服务约6700万人。PJM正努力满足数据中心激增的用电需求。
Vistra supplies power to the biggest US grid, operated by PJM Interconnection LLC, which stretches from Illinois to Washington, DC, and serves about 67 million people. PJM is struggling to meet surging demand from data centers.
白宫将扩大核电站规模视为为数据中心供电的重要手段，也将其视为一种廉价电力来源，可为经济增长和国内制造业提供支撑。
The White House sees expanded nuclear plants as a key means to power data centers, as well as a cheap source of electricity to underpin economic growth and domestic manufacturing.