It sounds like you're trying to somewhat reproduce Hewlett Packards Blade Server idea. RLX and IBM also make some.
There are ways to do the power thing, and for redundancy, you'd need to start thinking about hot-swap n+1 supplies: have enough PSUs to power everything, and then add another one. Set them all up so that you can swap one of them, live.
It's possible to do it, but you're going to get into some pretty heavy wiring (barbuss). You'll also have to tune the PSUs so that they provide as close a voltage to each other as is possible. See pHaestus' article on this site.
If you're considering dual NICs, then I have to assume that you've already considered dual CPU mobos, right? And then server clustering?
Where did you source the PCI risers?
What on earth would you need so much processing power for? A home-made ISP?
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