What happens to the energy of intention launching conscious thoughts that go into the collective unconscious, or are registered in the akashic records? Is that just a type of information, even though we think of it as having an energetic force?

This is a key founding principle that explains the reach, and seeming power of consciousness in general, and applies equally to non-local consciousness. What it does impinges on a target, in some cases to alter, but mostly it interacts with the target as an inquisitor, to come away with an imprint, an energetic imparting of information in the form of knowledge about something that will flow back to the sender to be reviewed, pondered, and perhaps acted on in some way. So the power of intention is truly the power of information, for all practical purposes. This is why you can focus on a building with your thoughts but not cause it to topple over, whereas information you learn about the reason for its existence and the actions of the inhabitants might eventually cause a physical destruction of that edifice if it is associated with wrongdoing and evil intentions, but those will not be products directly of conscious thought alone but how it is interpreted and refocused through further intention to make something happen at a physical level, in this example. So when an intention is projected via thought into the Ether, that is recorded in the informational content of the consciousness being generated, and thereafter that intention is observable and can be copied and shared by many observers as representing the actions of the creator of the energy to begin with. This is why the akashic records, for example, are richly detailed, with respect not only to who did what to whom, but what they thought and felt about it, what were their intentions, how were those intentions shaped in the many intricacies of energetic influence across time, and so forth. In other words, a very rich and complete tapestry of existence being stored in a very compact and accurate format that becomes a permanent record of everything, virtually, in existence at any point in time. As such, it is information only and cannot be the seed of destruction, for example, that the record of a civilization gone wrong that becomes warlike and destroys other worlds could somehow be regenerated again from having its detailed workings and events meticulously recorded in detail and very completely described as to motive and intention. It is still information only. It can be copied, it can be mimicked, and it can be responded to as inspiration or a bad example, depending on the observer, their state of mind, and their own soul makeup and intentions. But it does not pose a danger, it is intended as an ultimate source of truth; if it is something that is misunderstood, misinterpreted, and even misused to justify wrongdoing, for example, that is a karmic misstep of the observer. Such misconduct will be linked back to what is on record, in providing a negative karmic consequence for the creator of the bad example, and its record detailed and stored away for future review. This is a useful teachable moment to further appreciate the consequence of one's actions because they can live far beyond your current lifetime in ways that will continue to affect you along your immortal path through the future that unfolds.