How to use sharepoint online lists in different subsites as a datasource to powerpivot

My customer has sharepoint online + project online.
As you might know each project has a site, and in each site there are lists with the same name on each site.
We need a pivot table where we can aggregate all that list data, is this possible? Do I need powerbi, or can I do it without power bi?
Can u guide me in the right direction?
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I opened a ticket with MS support on this. They concluded that there is no means of scheduling an auto-refresh when you are aggregating more than one SharePoint list as your data source. They recommended buying a third party product to accomplish
this. Below is the relevant text I received from MS tech support for my ticket....
CAUSE: This is by design. The functionality needed for this is not currently implemented.
RESOLUTION: We were able to find a 3<sup>rd</sup> party tool that may be able to schedule refresh for these
reports (http://www.powerpivotpro.com/2015/02/introducing-power-update/)
TROUBLESHOOTING:
We assessed the report. It seemed that a Power Query data source needed to be created within Power BI, so we attempted to create that:
We were prompted to create a default gateway, even though the data was O365 data
We were only able to find references directly related to on-premise data sources and the default gateway
We attempted to find a workaround for this particular situation. We attempted the following configurations:
PowerPivot report populated by SharePoint lists
Excel report implementing SharePoint lists with the Data tab
Connecting the report to a SharePoint Document Library data source
Using OData feed for report
*All of the above configurations were unsuccessful
Additional Information
Even if a gateway could be created for the report, it would require Anonymous or Windows Authentication. O365 data sources require Claims Authentication.
Scheduled refresh can be made for SQL Azure data sources. However, this would require configuring some type of automatic refresh for the SQL Azure data source itself to populate with the SharePoint list
data.

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