When we had our home built, I was astonished when the contractor made us decide on the flooring options while he was building the forms for the foundation walls. He was going to pour the foundation to within 1/8 of an inch. And whether we choose the engineered or natural wood floor made that much difference.
Since this is Job's dream, I wouldn't be at all surprised if 1/8 inch is the minimal tolerance they want. I have no idea how close to perfectly level you can get on building that size.
1/8" tolerance over the length of a house is around 4-6" over the length of this building.
regardless, they're not pouring floors yet and they're definitely not going to pour one giant flat slab then build off it.. the foundation for something this size has to be able to move.
they'll put in a bunch of pilings deep into the ground and these don't need to be, nor can they be (in all practicality) exact.. the mechanical connection system to the actual foundation grade/beams lets you move a beam up/down 6 or so inches to get within tolerance of the actual structure or, this is where stevie's 1/8 thing would come into play.. (and i image this building will have a pretty sweet connection system due to it being in an earthquake zone.. probably some hi-tech bearing/bushing system under there and in essence, the building will be floating above the foundation).
anyway, steve jobs didn't do large scale construction.. for him to say "i want everything within an 1/8 across the site" makes not much sense.. i'm pretty sure if he did say that then he's talking about something other than this phase of construction.. (as in the ground itself probably moves more than 1/8" up/down between the cool morning and mid-afternoon heat)