Refresh without gateway through lakehouse and billing

[SPTR]

I want to know if I already have a PPU licence of powerbi, if my database is on gcp, do i need fabric licence or anything to use lakehouse.

What i am trying to do is auto-refresh reports without gateway or even when the computer is shut down.

So i am creating a dataflow to connect reports with cloud database through lakehouse but i dont want to store data on onelake. How do I do that?

Do I need extra licensing?

[AndyDDC]

Hi @SPTR you won't be able to use Fabric artifacts like Lakehouses if you just have a PPU licence and that is assigned to a workspace.  You'll need a Fabric capacity, e.g. current Power BI Premium capacity, or an Azure F SKU capacity which can be paused/resumed).

Can you give more details about your scenario?  If you just want to connect to a database service in GCP then you could just do that via normal Power BI Dataflows, the data is then stored in a hidden azure data lake (not onelake).  You can then build your dataset/reports from, that dataflow and then schedule the refreshes.

[v-nikhilan-msft]

Hi @SPTR 
We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet. In case if you have any resolution, please do share that same with the community as it can be helpful to others.
Otherwise, will respond back with the more details and we will try to help.
Thanks

[v-nikhilan-msft]

Hi @SPTR 
Following up to check if your issue has been solved. In case if you have any resolution, please do share that same with the community as it can be helpful to others.
Otherwise, will respond back with the more details and we will try to help.
Thanks