IBM Green DC at Syracuse U?

Does anyone know anything about the strategies intended for deployment by IBM and Syracuse University in the new green datacenter project they announced this week? They're promising 50% the power consumption of a conventional DC.

The cool thing about their approach is that it's half based in really careful planning and business discipline and the other half based in actual technology. See this video:

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/21440.wss

... As Steve Sams says, they're all about deferring capital investment and operating expenditure until needed, so their story is about modularity and scaleability to insure that investment throughout the build/scale lifecycle is always at minimum.

To achieve this _business_ goal, they have modular power and cooling, racking and wire management and other technologies that mix and match (Sams says) to let you scale at linear cost from 1x-12x. I'm not sure if that counts outside plant equipment -- for example in this Syracuse U deal, they're apparently building a standalone cogeneration plant to power the DC, so I can't believe there's not some investment in anticipation of need going on there.

IBM partnered with the university and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to create one of the most efficient data centers in the world, one that will serve as the model for data centers of the future. The Syracuse University Green Data Center comprises several innovative features that promise to reduce primary energy consumption by as much as 50 percent compared with a conventional utility-powered data center.

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